Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Firmly last week General Chiang Kaishek, who left China virtually without a Government fortnight ago by resigning as President, hopping into a plane, and soaring off to his country estate, announced: "I will not open any letters or telegrams...
...Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative and magnificently photographed. Best shots: a covey of bombing planes wheeling one by one to dive at a target (shown three times); a plane landing on the deck of the U. S. S. Saratoga as seen by a camera attached to the underpart of the plane; target practice in which airplane gunners fire at three blimps with cameras mounted on their guns...
Four hours by car, an hour and a half by plane from Hollywood, Agua Caliente is the most elaborate pleasure resort in North America. It was organized three years ago, largely by 34-year-old James Crofton who had previously been a racetrack barker at the squalid little border town of Tijuana, three miles farther...
...make money, or attract backers, by a spectacular flight in a Lockheed fell through. Finally he drew from his small balance of life savings, bought the Puss Moth in Canada, got enough odd jobs in Toronto and New York to pay for the keep of himself and his plane. After long, secret tests he hopped for Jamaica to begin a desperate bid for enough fame to rehabilitate him commercially...
...Nanking nervous, high-strung little Chinese President Chiang Kaishek, who has been squabbling for months with the other Chinese Government (the one at Canton), abruptly resigned, announcing that Canton leaders would come north and take over the Nanking,Government. Panic stricken, Mrs. Chiang (Wellesley '17) fled by plane from Nanking to safety in the International Settlement at Shanghai...