Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professors and students, Harvard should be an even more well rounded institution than it is today. But in the meantime it is to be hoped that the athletic endowment continues to grow, and President Conant has contributed to that end by putting the need for athletic endowment on a plane with the other needs of the University...
...dressy Manhattan matron Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken-in a chatty letter received by his Manhattan chiefs last week: "The first few bombs went wide of the mark, splashing into ponds between the power house and the hotel, too close for comfort but . . . very nice for pictures. The following planes came in with greater accuracy and dropped three eggs directly on the structure itself. . . . During this attack . . . the Chinese anti-aircraft with, I believe, .50 calibre machine guns brought down a plane directly in front of the building. It was impossible to get more than just the actual crash because things...
...Central High School near the hospital, Photographer Menken again had a bombing raid drop very nearly in his lap. "This time they headed smack for the hospital. Suddenly the leader went into a power dive and pointed directly where I was standing. Two bombs dropped from the plane and I could hear them coming for the building with that terrible whishing sound that says, 'This is Arthur's, this is Arthur's!' I ducked behind a door just in time. My car, which was next to the gate, was punctured by fragments in five places...
...therefore, the British Foreign Office thought last week in terms of both hemispheres and in terms of war and politics ahead of economics. Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is none too pleased that the Chinese Government has now taken in the Chinese Communists and that envoys dash by chartered plane between Nanking and Moscow. Although President Roosevelt was offering the United Kingdom the chance of the century to extract the U. S. from isolation and team it up with Great Britain, this week Downing Street had its careful fingers crossed...
Last March, with the Bureau of Air Commerce under fire from a Senate investigating committee as result of a series of plane crashes, Dr. Fagg was brought to Washington to replace Eugene L. Vidal as director. He went quietly to wort, reorganizing the bureau, established a safety and planning division that began to study more and better safety devices for pilots. By last week, when President Walter Dill Scott made a tempting offer to him to return to Northwestern, bureau officials and the industry at large were sorry...