Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While with the 51st Artillery, C. A. C. near Toul, France in 1918, I saw a lone enemy plane attack and destroy a captive balloon, miss a second, destroy a third, return and destroy the second, then fly home. The whole operation required but minutes, was done at a very low altitude (following a power dive) in broad day light, and in spite of the activities of anti-aircraft gunners stationed at balloon positions. I feel the same thing could be done today (TIME, June 23). I remember H. C. Barnes (then Major), onetime commander of our Battery...
...accepted an invitation to telephone his fiancee, Mary Powell in Melbourne, Australia, nearly an hour, the conversation went on: "Oh no, I'm not going to fly back across the Atlantic . . . we're flying right on to San Francisco. I'll try to dispose of the plane there Our September [wedding] date still stands, darling...
...control stick to keep from falling asleep Their second-hand Stinson Detroiter, City of Chicago, its left wing tank leaking badly, listed far to the right. The Wright J-6 motor coughed and sputtered after 18 days of continuous flight. Brothers Walter and Albert Hunter came up in their Plane Big Ben for the 154th time with gas and oil, with a meal prepared by Sister Irene John and Kenneth pushed on on, circling Chicago's Sky Harbor airport-finally waggled their wings in triumphant acknowledgment of the cheers they knew were coming from the crowd below. Thus, last...
Utterly exhausted, afraid to close an eye lest the man at the controls doze off and wreck the plane, John and Kenneth yet refused to land, insisted they were feeling fine." boasted they would flog their complaining craft along until July...
Poet Shostac has less to say about Manhattan's 14th St. than about himself. He writes this segment of autobiography in unrhymed, uneven lines that read well and easily. Not particularly quotable, never reaching a high poetic plane, never distinguishing between the vocabulary of poetry & prose, his novel in verse has considerable cumulative effect...