Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there every afternoon (at the head tutor's expense). On the other hand the tutor's Common Room has a pleasant atmosphere, although, or perhaps because, it is little used. Lowell is unique in having a tower room furnished with comfortable chairs, sofas, and an excellent plane on which any member of the House can practice. This room is available at a small price for meetings...
...Americans than usual among the 500,000 who saw the Grand National last week. The Marshall Fields, the S. Bryce Wings and Cinemactor Gary Cooper were there. But no liners docked specially at Liverpool as they did last year. The Prince of Wales and his brother George arrived by plane, landed on a ploughed field. Richard K. Mellon (nephew) had crossed just in time for the race. He saw his two horses, Alike and Glangesia, fail at the third fence, with John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Dusty Foot and M. D. Blair's Aruntius...
...Some said he erred in his manufacturing policy. When, last year, youthful Sherman Mills Fairchild retrieved his Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co. Inc. and aerial camera companies from Avco, the corporation retained the Fairchild airplane factory at Farmingdale, L. I. and proceeded to build a new single-engine mail-&-passenger plane called the Pilgrim. This manufacturing operation, said Mr. Coburn's critics, was extravagant. The plane, they said, is already obsolete. Others found fault with the president's insistence on burdening himself with detailed responsibility (by which he threatened his health). It was, they said, inefficient administration...
About half of the members of the club have soloed and received their license, the other half are other learning or intend to this spring. The club has its own plane, a Waco, and a private pilot, Thuri Ellis...
...addle-headed and incompetent, he removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground. He twists his leading lady's wrists when he suspects her of liking one of his stunt flyers and then rubs corrosive acid on the control wires of that pilot's plane. At this point, the esprit de corps of the stunt flyers*?three pilots who belonged to the same unit in France?reasserts itself. One (Robert Armstrong) against whom the director has no grudge, takes off in the damaged plane. The one (Richard Dix) whom the director hoped to kill...