Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's annual get-together Jaipal Singh stayed two days watching his tribesmen dance and cheer for Jarkhand, then flew back to Delhi. As his private plane buzzed over the crowded conference site, the hopeful adibasis greeted it with a shout, "Jaipal Singh, Jai Jarkhand...
...escort him over San Francisco. Over Chicago, he failed to notice that a gas tank had gone dry, lost several thousand feet before he could get his stalled engine started from another tank. Over Pennsylvania, he plugged in an electric razor and shaved. Then he landed his plane at Teterboro (N.J.) Air Terminal, just 36 hours and 5,300 miles away from Honolulu. Average speed: 147 m.p.h. It was the longest nonstop flight ever made by a light plane (1,700 miles longer than Lindbergh's flight to Paris in 1927). Odom stepped out looking as spruce...
Last week Ben & Joe were also turning out a new version of the Atomic Whirler -a beanie shaped like a plane with a propeller that spins when the child runs. Soon they will get to work on a brand-new idea-"a hat that stays still while the kid whirls around...
Into Washington National Airport last week flew a fat-bellied Boeing Stratocruiser, the first to be delivered to a commercial airline. With a Pan American Airways pilot at the controls, the plane had hopped from San Francisco in fast time (6 hrs. 22 min.) to keep a christening date with Margaret Truman...
...that he has done so without ridiculing Aaron's personal struggle for grace and his hope of salvation, that he has made the forlorn life of the mission adventurous despite the total lack of adventurous incident, and that he has never let the whole affair fall below a plane of good-natured raillery...