Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...20th Century that the life of the Gospels can be lived in full, the Church may as well close its doors." In an interview next day the dean clarified his views and answered Dr. Fishbein by saying: "No man could live on oranges alone, that is, on the natural plane. I have displaced the need for oranges by building up within myself spiritual strength and energy. . . . I intend to prove that the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink...
...mile deep and alive with sharks. One was caught nearby a few days later with a man's bones in his belly. Said Avocet's Chief Boatswain Bogan: "Bits of wood and paper covered the sea. . . . They seemed to be fragments from the interior of the plane. All the pieces were from one to six inches square. We found nothing larger than that...
...theorists jumped to the "static spark" conclusion advanced as a cause of the Hindenburg's explosion last year at Lakehurst. But most experts accepted a simpler explanation-that flame or sparks, which sometimes trail out 40 ft. behind Clipper exhaust pipes, ignited gasoline vaporizing from the plane's dump valves a dozen feet below...
...many an aviator his amazing good judgment made the Pago Pago accident something of an enigma. It is established that Captain Musick could have landed his heavily loaded ship in Pago Pago harbor. On the other hand, so precarious is fuel dumping as a method of lightening a plane, that it is forbidden by the Bureau of Air Commerce on all U. S. passenger-carrying aircraft. It is therefore possible that Ed Musick's last professional decision was his first unwise one. Nevertheless, President Trippe made it plain: "I feel that Captain Musick and his flight crew are entirely...
When a big three-motored T. W. A. Fokker crashed in 1931, killing among others Knute Kenneth Rockne, that type of plane was grounded. Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce (day after it was done by the company itself) grounded Northwest Airlines' eight new Lockheed 14 H transports, fastest in the world. One had crashed with ten people in Montana fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 17). From the 1931 order the Fokker plant never recovered; Fokker airplanes disappeared from...