Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Green Hell. About a month ago Count Edmondo di Robilant and Mechanic Mauranta Quaranta left Sao Paulo, Brazil in a fast Fiat pursuit plane, to reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia. Forced down on a tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps...
...Last week the crew of a switch engine in Kansas City stated they had seen the plane brush a grain elevator with its wingtip soon after the takeoff. They said that three days later they found a dent on the fire escape of the elevator, about where the wing was supposed to have struck...
Just as wasp-waisted President Chiang Kaishek was about to shrill a speech of welcome to his "People's Congress" at Nanking; just as the President's northern ally, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, swooped down from Tientsin in his Ford plane, just as the party was going to begin last week, BANG-Revolution in Canton...
Because the crash that killed Knute Rockne and seven others in Kansas last month (TIME, April 13) has yet to be fully explained (beyond the simple fact that a wing of the Fokker plane pulled off) the Department of Commerce last week took drastic action. It suspended all Fokker trimotors of the 1929 type from passenger service until experts of the Department and the Fokker company make a thoroughgoing inspection of each craft. Said Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young: "No reflection of any kind upon Fokker aircraft or its basic design or original construction. The only point involved...
...Colonel Parkin-thorpe; its shady businessman, Sir Herbert Livewright; its lady-with-a-past, Mrs. Gillingham; its rank & file of unremarkable characters who in real life would be of interest only to themselves. It is Author Mackail's especial triumph that he raises their realism to the plane of fiction. This year in Tiverton Square sees its tragedy of first love: in the eyes of the Square a victory of middle-aged common sense over two hopeless young romantics. The Author. Denis George Mackail is only 39 but The Square Circle is his 14th book. Refreshingly respectable...