Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naval aeronautics last week went on trial before a Senate Committee. Sponsor of the investigation was Maryland's Senator Millard Evelyn Tydings, bony-faced War veteran, whose Committee was authorized to inquire into "the conditions surrounding the type, speed and comparativity of fast pursuit and bombing planes with those of other nations and all other matters pertaining thereto." In the background of the investigation there loomed up the old Navy controversy of battleship v. plane...
...request citizens had contributed $30,000 to construct at the naval aircraft factory at Philadelphia a racing plane for him to pilot in last year's Schneider cup races in England. The plane. Mercury II, was 880 Ib. overweight, would not fly. He wanted to take it to England anyway, crack it up at the starting line and thus conceal the naval aircraft factory's "bungling construction." For six years the Navy had hampered his speed experiments. When in February he was ordered to sea duty, he resigned from the service in the belief that only in private aviation could...
...temporary hospital was thrown up which was the beginning of the world famed "Clinic City." Probably the only city of its type in the world, Rochester is a giant hospital. To it, each day, come hundreds of sufferers?by plane, train, motor, foot. All know that they will be treated. Twenty-five % are free cases; 30% pay the bare expenses of their own cases; 45% pay for running the Clinic. Besides the Brothers Mayo there are over 300 other medical men in town...
...York at a dinner given by Loening. In winning first place Harvard qualified with 22 licensed pilots who put in a total of 1,155 hours of flying. The club is the oldest flying organization in the country and is the only one that owns its own plane outright...
...announced that four men will go down to attend the Loening dinner and accept the prize. These men are R. B. Bell '30, former president of the club, J. H. Smith '32, H. H. Timken '32, and Robert Gilmore, Jr. '31. The men will fly down in the club plane on Saturday afternoon...