Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churchill's statement, a flash came from Germany that Lieutenant Commander Günther Prien and the boyish crew of his U-boat, safely back at Kiel, were congratulated by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder for smiting not only Royal Oak but also Repulse. A. Hitler sent his personal plane, Grenzmark, to fetch them to Berlin for an ovation in which Propaganda Minister Goebbels managed to share the spotlight...
...curvature so that it was on a theoretical eyeline with W2XBS. Suddenly on the mirror-screen of the receiver appeared the image of Herluf Provensen, NBC announcer. He introduced RCA President David Sarnoff, United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson. As they chatted, a photographer aboard the plane set up his camera. "Smile," he said into the radiophone. Presidents Sarnoff and Patterson obediently smiled, were mugged 200 miles away...
...kick for the passengers came on the way home. On the return trip, the television screen showed a movie. As the airliner approached North Beach airport, the movie show was replaced by a ground view of the landing field, with a plane coming down to land. The passengers watched the screen idly, then suddenly came to life. "That's us," someone shouted. It was. Plane and image landed neatly together, taxied toward the apron, where the NBC-RCA mobile unit was parked with its roving eye televising the whole business...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.--An Eastern Airlines pilot brought his big transport plane down safely in a freshly plowed field 20 miles east of here today while flames roared in the baggage compartment and smoke filled the cabin where seven passengers were. The passengers and a crew of three escaped uninjured...
Married. Josef Lipski, former Polish Ambassador to Germany, to a Mme Rosset, who had just squeaked out of Warsaw by plane before the Germans captured it; in Paris. Day after his wedding, Mr. Lipski went off to enlist as a private in the Polish Legion in France...