Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like harvest time in the wheat belt, like the fishing season on the Grand Banks, the opening of the dressmaking season is, to Paris, a business event. Last week by boat, train and plane sharp-eyed buyers piled into the city to attend the official autumn & winter openings of the great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives...
Juan Trippe's triumphal day was somewhat marred by the wreck of a Pan American-Grace Airways transport which occurred in the sea off Panama four days earlier, snuffing out 14 lives (TIME, Aug. 9). Pan American spokesmen hastened to point out that the wrecked plane was not one of the famed Clippers, which are flying boats, but an amphibian; and that Pan American and Pan American-Grace are separate airlines, although P.A.A.owns 50% of P.A.G. stock. P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last...
...Sikorsky S-43, weighed 19,000 lb., had a passenger capacity of 15. A fleet of Navy craft searching the accident area last week found packages of mail, life preservers, cushions, a rug, a container of ice cream. The mail was dried out in a Cristobal bakeshop, forwarded by plane. Small fragments of the Sikorsky scattered over a wide area led P.A.G. officials to believe that it struck the sea at high speed. No bodies were recovered. The passenger list made public last week disclosed that among the victims were two well-known Bureau of Air Commerce executives, Rex Martin...
...three and twelve passengers, including Benjamin F. Mun of Long Beach, Calif., president of Humber Oil Co. Near the village of Lembecq-lez-Hal the airliner bored into a mass of dark cloud, was seen few minutes later pitching steeply to earth with flame enveloping the left wing. The plane struck so hard that the motors and half the fuselage disappeared into the ground. All on board were killed. KLM officials, but few other aeronautical experts, thought that lightning might have ignited the fuel tanks while the airliner was in the cloud...
Because Banker Bickell's passport was in Toronto, Pan American was forced to refuse them. Undismayed, Speculator Smith phoned his great and good friend, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, who assured him that an American Airlines mail plane could pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called his secretary, had a plane chartered to fly the passport there. Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp. The post office was persuaded to scramble through six sacks of air mail to fish it out. Back at the Pan American offices. Operator Smith...