Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pray may worship in their wheel chairs. Last week, the President and his party attended dedicatory services conducted by Atlanta's Episcopal Bishop Henry J. Mikell. C. Back from a three-week lecture tour on the West Coast, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Warm Springs after a plane trip from Seattle via Atlanta...
Comrade Chowder will come to Cambridge from a retreat in Leavenworth in an armored plane, L. Lane Leeway, President of the Young Conservatives, declared yesterday in a prepared statement. "Marx my word," Leeway added, "Chowder will be able to handle even the Student Union hecklers--all right, all right--after all he has lectured at Yale...
...going to be killed-all,'' wailed Mr. Matthews' hotel chambermaid, after living through the first twelve air raids in barely 24 hours. A Barcelona drugstore clerk from whom Mr. Matthews was buying medicine for a headache, sighed: "Oh, for a plane to fly to France! I don't want...
Last December Pan American Airways invited four makers of passenger air transports and four builders of war planes to submit plans of ocean aircraft to its unsalaried technical adviser, Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Left out of the bids was a ninth manufacturer, Major Alexander de Seversky, who promptly secured P. A. A.'s permission to submit drawings. The plane called for was to carry 100 passengers, a crew of 16, fly 5,000 miles nonstop up to 20,000 ft. at 200 m.p.h...
With three companions he took off from Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose 12,500 ft. to skim the bare mountain hump en route to Quito. Had Fritz Hammer climbed 15 ft. higher he would have cleared the granite peak. Instead he and his companions crashed to death. When found, the plane was strewn over half a mile of mountainside, the four bodies were 200 yards apart, all stripped naked by Indians...