Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent Avco, all credit as a "very great aviation group" and to a staff writer a reprimand for omitting it. He had plane manufacturing units in mind, of which Avco, principally a transport group, has only two (Fairchild, Kreider-Reisners) whereas Curtiss-Wright has seven, United five, Detroit...
...drone of the big plane was heard above Bucharest airdrome, by then brilliantly floodlighted. An army corps and the Prime Minister were at hand. To be ready for all emergencies Bucharest had been placed under what amounted to martial law with General Cenrik Cihoski temporarily appointed Governor of the Capital. Amid much obsequious bowing the Hohenzollern entered a limousine, was driven swiftly to Cotroceni Palace...
...Halliburton offered to buy 1,000 trimotored Ford monoplanes "or their equivalent in performance," to establish a nation-wide network of passenger air lines -to make people fly. The first 100 planes, he said, were to be delivered at the rate of two per week, at $20,000 per plane less than the current price...
...successful silent pictures, Two Arabian Knights and The Racket. Then he decided to make a great air picture. He spent $2,000,000 on Hell's Angels. Two flyers died in action before the camera. The death scene of one remains in the picture-a big bombing plane falling in flames. The pilot got out with a parachute but not his assistant, who was working the flame and smoke pots. Hell's Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds...
...society to their warmth. For a long time he toyed with the idea of marriage. But it was actually repulsive to him. He could never bring himself to the point. He had several intimate friendships with women, and conducted them all peaceably together, on however platonic a plane. This took considerable tact, was often an emotional strain. "Philine" he finally calmed back into friendship...