Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving Flint, Saginaw, Bay City with their 300,000 inhabitants as well as those of the surrounding countryside without light in their homes or power in their factories. This made even Governor Frank Murphy speak to the strikers severely, and the union negotiating committee hurrying back from Washington by plane told the workers to come to their senses before the whole public grew angry at them. After a powerless day service was finally restored...
Lately the U. S. magazine Aero Digest, which is usually accurate, has run two articles on Soviet aviation which estimate that its military strength is at least 3,500 planes and possibly much higher.* Some 50,000 miles of airlines, mostly unaided by radio, cover all of Russia proper and much of Siberia. Last year these lines transported 200,000 passengers and 7,500 tons of mail against U. S. figures of 1,146,138 and 7,689. Osoaviakhim (civil aviation society) has 7,000,000 members, most of whom make parachute jumps for amusement. Some 600,000 Soviet children...
Second most important U. S. Russian is Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky, who lost a leg for Russia while flying in the War, has lately zoomed into military importance by producing what is generally regarded as the world's fastest pursuit plane. Last week he flew his chunky ship from Belleville, Ill. to Dayton, Ohio at an average speed of 321 m.p.h. Other prominent Russian designers...
...George de Bothezat, consultant on mathematical problems in plane design who lives near the Army air base at Dayton, Ohio...
Were Henry Ford bowled over by a Ford or William Knudsen by a Chevrolet, he would feel as President Jack Frye of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. felt when, landing at Pittsburgh with ten other passengers in a TWA plane, the tail wheel snagged and the big Douglas ground-looped, smacking its wing into a temporary grandstand. Injuries: none...