Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follette had to put aside the biography she was writing of her late great husband, Senator Robert Marion La Follette, because of acute abdominal pains. Aged 72, fine-faced, clearheaded, she was taken to Georgetown University Hospital where surgeons ordered an emergency operation for a serious intestinal obstruction. By plane and train from Wisconsin to Washington sped her devoted sons Senator Robert Marion and Governor Philip Fox La Follette. They arrived just in time to get a flickering smile of loving recognition from their mother before she slipped quietly away from them forever. Too late was her daughter Fola, wife...
...country against him, in sympathy at least, keeps every one of his well-paid, well-fed soldiers toeing the mark. Within five hours Federals were moving against Gibara, by land, by sea, in the air. The filibusters got their asthmatic freight no farther than the station before five combat planes were ripping over the area, dropping bombs, strafing the ground with short bursts of machine gun fire. The anti-aircraft gun barked angrily. One bullet knocked the magneto off Capt. Torres Menier's plane. Two more planes, one piloted by Lieut. Rodolfo Herrera, son of the Cuban Army...
From the Hugoton gasfield of Kansas and from the neighboring Amarillo field of the Texas Panhandle to Rockville, Ind. is about 805 miles as the plane flies. In 1928 a young promoter by the name of Frank Preston Parish formed Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. to run a natural gas line over this distance. In June 1930, it became apparent that Mr. Parish needed more funds. Three months later potent Morgan-affiliated Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., in order to avert a rapid descent of the entire gas balloon, and to avert what might have turned out to be unwelcome competition...
Last week the new, bland, stiff-collared president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Very Rev. Jeremiah Joseph Callahan.* declared "the problem can easily be solved by plane geometry." He said he had done it in less than two months after the June semester closed. His mathematical reputation (his book Euclid or Einstein? on parallelism is to be published next month) gives prestige to his statement. The Callahan trisection depends "on the geometry of a plane figure that is not treated in Euclid, or in those modern works that are based on Euclid. When certain theorems concerning this figure are demonstrated...
...TIME, Aug. 17). Officials signaled frantically to Cramer & Pacquette but the former mistook the gestures for farewells, circled the town, flew away over the ocean. The storm broke, a hurricane, driving surface craft to cover. A Swedish radio station heard a faint "Hello, hello, hello" in English, but the plane was not seen again. Days later the crew of a trawler sighted the body of a man clad in life belt and what looked like aviator's clothing floating upright in the North Sea. In Cleveland President Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerican Airlines, sponsor of the projected air route...