Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mola's land attack on Bilbao was temporarily halted after a bloody hand-to-hand with rifle butts and knives. Comparatively quiet too were all the other fronts. But overhead hell was popping. The week started with the shooting down, by Rightists near Bilbao, of a French transport plane carrying passengers from Biarritz to the besieged city. France had little cause for complaint. The transport, owned by the Air Pyrenees Line, had been running the blockade for weeks trusting to its top speed of 230 m.p.h. and the pilot's ability to dive into clouds...
...Lawrence) wins a beauty contest managed by her boy friend Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley) only to find that the prize money has been stolen. Chagrined to see her humiliated, Joe journeys to Hollywood to try to land her a film job. But the forced landing of an American Airlines plane at Waterloo gives screenstruck Cecilia her chance to meet Cinemactor Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), fly out to the Coast with him and her noisy sister Nellie (Patsy Kelly...
...Sandwich- To get to Royal St. George's Club in time for his first-round match, Brigadier General Alfred Cecil Critchley, London sports promoter, sailed from New York on the Normandie, took a speedboat to the dock at Southampton, chartered a plane, flew to the course, waved at the starter to identify himself, landed at a nearby airport, rushed up to the first tee. He arrived three minutes after the match had been awarded to his opponent by default...
...target to hit from Manhattan 783 miles away. But at 10,000 ft. a pilot can see 50 miles on a clear day and so can still spot his goal even if he misses 'it by that great a navigational error. Last week, as a Pan American Airways plane soared casually down to Bermuda from the U. S. to make the first test flight for this long-touted airway, there was no such trouble...
...plane was the Bermuda Clipper, a new Sikorsky S-42B flying boat powered by four Hornet motors and flown by a crack crew of eight Pan American employes headed by Captain Harold E. Gray, veteran of the Pacific and South American runs. Trundling up from Pan American's temporary base at Port Washington, L. I. at 9:32 a. m., it skirted the coast to Atlantic City, then bored out over the ocean at 10,000 ft. above a fringe of clouds. With a 20-m.p.h. tail wind and guided by a direction finder at Bermuda...