Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion an implication was made in your article on p. 42 of TIME, April 10 that the plane in the recent crash at Oklahoma City was a Lockheed. This is incorrect...
...TIME intended no innuendo, meant just what it said: that the Braniff Airways crash (a Douglas plane) and the Northwest Airlines crash (a Lockheed) were outstanding cases of mechanical failure...
...President Roosevelt received Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, reporting in Washington for two weeks' active duty with the Army Air Corps, discussed the world's military plane situation...
...Japan and China to stop fighting. Next day Sir Archibald went to China's capital, Sir Robert to Japan's. In Tokyo, Sir Robert was greeted by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita with great politeness and greater vagueness. But in Chungking, as he stepped from the plane which had taken him there, Sir Archibald was handed a copy of an important declaration by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Our prolonged resistance, our policy of gaining time by sacrificing space and winning the final triumph through an accumulation of small victories, has reduced Japan to the position of a second-rate power...
Died. Daniel S. Roosevelt, 21, nephew of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Bronson Harriman Rumsey, 22, son of the late Sculptor Charles Gary Rumsey* and the late Mary Harriman Rumsey,† in a plane crash; near Guadalupe Victoria, Puebla. Mexico. Belittling storm warnings, Flier Roosevelt, on vacation from Harvard, took off from a Mexico City airport with a girl companion, Carlotta Constantine, and Schoolfellow Rumsey, headed for Veracruz, ran into a storm, crashed in a forced landing. Catapulted clear of the wreckage, Carlotta Constantine was taken to a Mexico City hospital with fractures of left...