Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perfect Day." Bright & early next morning Nominee Roosevelt arrived at the Albany Airport where a trimotored plane waited to take him and ten relatives, friends and aides to Chicago. "It's a perfect day, isn't it?" called the Governor to cheering onlookers as he was lifted into the cabin. With stops at Buffalo and Cleveland, the air voyage against stiff winds required nine hours...
...Roosevelt was, of course, Speaker Garner who wired: "Your nomination means your election." Mr. Traylor told the Press the Roosevelt nomination made him "personally very happy." Most startling felicitation came from insurgent Republican Senator Hiram Johnson of California, no friend to President Hoover. He was "thrilled" by the Roosevelt plane ride, admired the Roosevelt acceptance speech, but did not go so far as to say he would support the Roosevelt candidacy. Neither did Alfred Emanuel Smith, who had "no comment" to make...
From the trans-Atlantic flight of Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in a Fokker plane, Fokker Aircraft Corp. got certain publicity. Last week the company found the publicity had cost $16,454, scarcely a bargain...
Lloyd C. Stearman, 33, plane designer, founder and onetime president of United Aircraft & Transport's subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., was made president of reorganized Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Formerly a unit of defunct Detroit Aircraft, Lockheed was purchased at a receiver's sale last month by Walter T. Varney, pioneering West coast airline operator...
Died. John Hunter, 26, one of the four brothers who set a world's airplane refueling endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec. in 1930; by decapitation; in Rosedale, Miss. Attempting to untie his amphibian plane from a dock, Flyer Hunter was struck by the propeller...