Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First white war correspondent to report from central Jehol was United Press's Herbert R. Ekins. "I saw the real picture of warfare today," he flashed from Lingyuan. "Passing through three lines of Chinese trenches I witnessed three Japanese airplanes flying out of the east circle low. . . . One plane dropped a bomb which exploded with a terrific blast, but, except for ripping a huge crater in the ground, it merely injured a 10-year...
...effort to keep its plane working as much as possible during the winter months, the Flying Club has made arrangements so that both instruction and solo flying are offered at less than one half the commercial rates. As far as the club has been able to determine, their new rates are the lowest ever offered in this country. Members are entitled to use the club's Waco F plane at $6 an hour by promising to fly at least three hours each month. Instruction with the Flying Club pilot is $10 an hour...
...elephants in all forms, once took a live one to a party. Back in Manhattan last week he fell to thinking what fun the Canada trip had been, especially the miner quartet. Putting deed to thought, he telephoned the mine, arranged to have the singers shipped down by special plane in time to perform next evening at a return dinner to Minister McCrea. A second message stipulated that the miners must remain dirty and wear their work clothes to earn their...
...September 1930 the brothers Charles Townsend & Nicholas Saltus Ludington, Philadelphia socialites, started Ludington Air Lines, a plane-per-hour service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington-"most travelled stretch of territory in the world."* The Ludingtons put $1,000,000 into the company, kept most of the stock, sold none publicly. They declared themselves prepared to operate at a loss for five years. Last week they sold out to Eastern Air Transport, reputedly...
...Sammy Schulman, for 14 years an International News Photo cameraman, was rewarded with a startling action picture of Mayor Cermak a few seconds after he had been wounded. His picture of the bleeding Mayor (see cut) was also distributed through Acme because Acme carried the photograph in its plane to Manhattan. The picture approaches in sensational spontaneity the picture that alert William Warneke made for the oldtime Evening World of New York's Mayor Gaynor within a few seconds of his being shot in the neck aboard a steamer bound for Europe...