Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident, Germany's Field Marshal Hermann Göring, who, long before he got too paunchy to slide into a cockpit, served as a commercial pilot in Sweden, offered to make Sweden a present of a new, fully-equipped air-ambulance worth 450,000 crowns ($108,000). The plane was to be named for Göring's dead first wife Karin, sister of the wife of a Swede named Dr. Nils Silfversköld (Silver Shield...
...just a short while before had an nounced himself the Parliament's first anti-Semite) arose and berated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson on the matter of the plan (airplane). In the course of his harangue, Member Wallén let slip details about the plane which no one else knew and which showed that he had been talking with Nazis. The Prime Minister at once condemned the whole thing as a German plan (scheme) against Sweden's Left ist Government...
Last week Northwest Airlines got practical about the problem, announced that it was installing plane oxygen systems which will : 1) cure airsickness, 2) prevent heart palpi tation and hard breathing at high altitudes, 3) make flying comfortable at cruising levels up to 30,000 feet, 4) prevent the painful sensation of having one's ears stopped up in descents from flights...
Only Negro airman known to the U. S. at large is Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, who once cracked up Haile Selassie's private plane in Ethiopia and is now in Manhattan, talking about flying. In fact, the U. S. has licensed 129 Negroes as commercial, private and student pilots, including Student Julian, whose license expired last year, and twelve women. Air-minded Negroes have learned to fly at six schools run by & for their race, at 43 more for whites and blacks...
...Prompted by a letter to Tsar Will Hays from U. S. Assistant Secretary of State George S. Messersmith, Producer Sam Goldwyn announced that he had canceled plans to make Thirteen Go Flying, based on last January's crash of the British transport plane, Cavalier...