Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican Government, few days later, denied that President Cárdenas had actually made an oil deal with Messrs. Rickett & Smith as yet. Since they had already rushed by plane to Wall Street, it seemed probable they were contacting prospects, preparing to fly back to Mexico City for the signing of contracts later, if possible. The big question: Was this "hot oil"-that is, are the U. S. and Britain going to agree or disagree with the proclamation by which President Cárdenas laid down three weeks ago that it was right and legal for Mexican oil workers...
...three years at his airplane plant at Evere, in suburban Brussels, Belgian Manufacturer Alfred Renard has been busy planning a revolutionary high-flying transatlantic machine. Partly financed by his government, and advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked...
...under to their will with an ultimatum (TIME, March 28). By this time Mr. Hoover had journeyed through Finland, Estonia, had missed a luncheon date with Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf because fog delayed his Baltic steamer, and popped in on Copenhagen. From there he continued by plane for England to catch the Normandie...
...Last week Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. abandoned until summer search for its plane, lost near Fresno March 1 with nine aboard. Said Mrs. Jay Dirlam, whose son and daughter, Tracy and Mary Lou, were aboard the lost plane rushing south to their dying father's bedside: "I am convinced the disappearance of the plane was one of those unavoidable accidents. The plane was of the best and the pilots were among the best. Under the same circumstances I would still advise my children to take a plane...
...activities 25 years ago the Foundation has been guided by the objective written into its charter: 'the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' In accordance with this purpose the aim of the trustees has been to maintain the work of the Foundation on an international plane without consideration of flags or political doctrines or creeds or sects. . . . We are all of us, under whatever flag, the joint beneficiaries of the intellectual property of the race...