Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day came another call for help. Rioters were attacking the adminstration buildings of the Ford rubber plantation, 500 miles away on the Tapajos River. U. S. citizens were in danger. Para officials waited for no river boats, commandeered a giant Pan American Airways plane, filled it with swarthy policemen, sent it roaring over the treetops to the rescue...
When his market goes flabby, a manufacturer may 1) reduce price, 2) create new outlets for his product. Last spring, Errett Lobban ("E. L.") Cord started the general slash of airplane prices by marking down his Stinson planes and Lycoming motors (TIME, March 3). Last week he announced formation of Century Air Lines, Inc. to fly trimotored Lycoming-Stinson transports over a network of plane-per-hour schedules radiating from Chicago...
Simultaneously, Stinson made first delivery to Century Lines on "the largest commercial plane order ever received by an airplane company"-for 100 planes and extra engines and equipment aggregating nearly $3,000,000. Retail price of a Stinson trimotor is $25,900. Youthful E. L. Cord, who opened one of the first automobile washing and greasing stations in Los Angeles, and who hoisted himself through the used-car business to the presidency of Auburn Automobile Co. and the $291,000,000 Cord Corp., is also president of Century Air Lines. With him is his Auburn vice president, L. B. Manning...
Surprise. His plane loaded with Christmas presents, Pilot Maryan Freiter swooped over his parents' home in Philadelphia to announce his "surprise" home coming. He waved to his brother, started to climb, crashed to his death...
...near possessions in ten hours. Last week Detroit Aircraft Corp. delivered to the Army its bid for fulfillment of that plan: a "cleaned up" Lockheed with new landing gear devoid of all but two exposed struts; a cowled Wasp engine with supercharger. Speed claimed: 210 m.p.h.- "fastest transport plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built in the U. S."-a special Lockheed, price $36,000-for "commuting" between Commander Kidston's London home and his plantations near Mount Kenya, Africa...