Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Roosevelt spent $320 to hire a plane to fly him from Brussels, where he had attended a ball given by Ambassador Joe Davies, to Windsor to dine with King George...
Last week Harwa journeyed to Manhattan by plane and his publicity-wise handlers saw to it that he got into a good deal of trouble. He was first evicted from a hotel, then from a performance of the mad musicomedy Hellzapoppin, and finally, while being taken to a General Electric X-Ray Corp. office, got caught in a revolving door...
...gallon, he kept his Monocoupe on top of an overcast most of the way, kept himself on the course by listening to range stations on a small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost of the trip, exclusive of sandwiches, coffee and depreciation: $27.15. Result: a fat sheaf of inquiries from pilots, to some of whom Monocoupe hopes to sell airplanes. Said satisfied Mr. Bunch: "I made the flight...
...most cases," says she, "the ideal plan to challenge a young hopeful . . . would be to send him or her to a practical school of technical training (if one exists) where the pupils are taught to drive a nail straight, or saw a plank, miter a few corners and plane the surface of rough wood until the hands become used to holding and directing tools...
...advantages are such that Yale will soon come to adopt the game sort of sports set-up for the future. Until then, in the individual sports, the Harvard all-House teams will be at an advantage over the champion Yale House team and on close to an equal plane with these individual sports in which Yale has no House team, while in the team sports Harvard will be at a disadvantage in meeting the Eli soccer, lacrosse and rugby regular outfits and on the same plane in the others...