Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Untidy Premier Daladier, who rolls his own cigarets and always has tobacco crumbs in the creases of his suits, last week left Paris with Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet by special plane for Croydon. There he was met by elegant British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax whose cadaverous visage for once beamed. This same Halifax few months ago visited and conferred at length with Hitler, afterwards was reported by close friends shocked and grieved when Germany absorbed Austria. Whether or not events in Austria have taught Lord Halifax things he did not know about Germans, the conference at No. 10 Downing Street...
American Optical Co. (Southbridge, Mass.) last week announced a new trick to detect fakers who claim eye injuries, expected the trick to be of interest to insurance companies and industrial corporations. The gadget makes use of polarized light, which is light filtered so that it vibrates in only one plane. If light filtered through a polarizing crystal encounters a second crystal whose cleavage plane* is turned perpendicularly, it cannot get through. But if the second crystal is rotated until the cleavage plane is parallel to the light waves, the light is then transmitted...
Coast guardsmen and Seattle harbor patrol beats attached lines to the plane and towed it ashore. The women could not be revived. The victims were Mrs. Ome Daiber and Miss Dorothy Matthews of Seattle. Mrs. Daiber's husband accompanied Washburn on previous Alaskan expeditions. Miss Matthews was engaged to Borrows...
...night in Long Island hotel, where employes reported he had arrived in a boisterous state, moody Andrew Whitfield drove to Roosevelt Field, climbed into the cockpit of his small, silver Taylor-Cub monoplane, told attendants he was off to Brentwood, 20-odd miles away. Flyer Whitfield then nosed his plane into a mild easterly wind, disappeared from sight. Next afternoon an eight-State search by plane, police and boat got under way. Most plausible of a welter of rumors-including one, later proved false, that he had been seen boarding a steamer for Europe-was advanced by a Norwalk, Conn...
...tedious, 48-hour journey from Bagdad, Iraq to Teheran over Iraq's slow railroads and Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...