Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...races, instead of following the established airway from Tampa. The throttle rod of their Bird biplane broke; down the ship slanted, gently but permanently, into the 6-ft. swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue. Gently the blimp Puritan eased itself down until the men could grasp the railing around the bottom of the gondola, pull themselves aboard. No one could think of a way to recover the airplane, which...
...Green Trophy for planes of 125 h. p. or less, and the Glenn H. Curtiss Trophy, unlimited, both won by S. J. Wittman, Oshkosh barnstormer, in a homemade racing plane with a 90 h. p. Cirrus engine. Pilot Wittman's speed in the Curtiss race was 166.9 m-p-h., fastest of the meet...
...Russia but by this time Mata Hari finds it expedient to steal some papers from him. To do so, she passes small hours at his quarters, makes him blow out a holy candle burning under the ikon of a madonna. The aviator finally starts back for Russia, but his plane crashes. Miss Garbo, like all female spies in the cinema, sacrifices professional curiosity to I'amour. She kills a Russian general (Lionel Barrymore), but not until jealousy has made him give the information which leads to her painful but ennobled...
...swift Northrop monoplanes which cut the transcontinental flying time down to 24 hr. for mail. Last week T. & W. A. had its reward. Los Angeles mail was rerouted by the Post Office to T. & W. A., the company's space contract upped from 225 Ib. to 750 Ib. per plane...
...testimony, as well as that of President Aydelotte, that the student response under proper guidance is characterized by "self-control, reliability, persistence and tolerance." Like views have recently been expressed by Dean Gauss at Princeton. There are signs that our colleges and universities are moving to a higher plane of intellectual life. Those who have been critical are seeing fruits of their persistent preaching. It cannot be doubted that the present period of necessary economy will have good effects in the quality of college experience. The "college of the moving picture screen" is disappearing. --New York Times...