Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expansive was the mood of the Premier after the warmth of his African receptions that he chose to ignore the latest manifestation of Italian ill will. Special Correspondent Jérôme Tharaud of the Paris-Soir arrived at Genoa by plane en route to Djibouti. Even though he had an Italian visa, the Fascist police interrupted his voyage, escorted him back to the French frontier. Reason: Italy claimed M. Tharaud had written articles uncomplimentary to Italian soldiers in Spain...
Most impressive and significant event of the week was the light plane cavalcade of some 550 Pipers, Taylor Cubs, Aeroncas, mobilized by Major Al Williams and his flying staff of the Gulf Oil Corp.'s aviation department. On the opening day 325 of these little fellows flew into Miami on free gas and oil from the East, the Middle West and the Southwest, settling like flocks of gulls on Florida's sands. By the meet's end most of the stragglers had joined the first 325. Of the rest, forced down en route by weather, low fuel...
Assen Jordanolf, at 18, built the first airplane in Bulgaria. Year later he was a Bulgarian War ace, flying on the Salonika front. When the War ended, and the Neuilly treaty left Bulgaria one plane, he flew that until it was wrecked by a hurricane. In 1921 he heard that $1,000,000 was waiting in the U. S. for anyone who would fly around the world. He came over to collect...
Assen Jordanoff brightened his book with hundreds of lucid and often humorous illustrative drawings and diagrams, spiced it with asides like: "The difference between a three-point landing and a one-point landing is that after the first you can fly the plane again. . . . Being playful close to the ground may mean an extra order of lilies for your neighborhood florist...
Last week Mr. Charles Harding Babb of Glendale, Calif., who is the world's busiest jobber in new and used sport, military and transport planes, decided to go into the heavy freight plane production business. That nobody ever had done so before was no deterrent to Charlie Babb...