Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy headquarters at Pearl Harbor received a letter from Mrs. John S. Campbell of Elizabethton, Tenn., enclosing one wilted daisy and a note: "In loving memory of our son, William Vane Campbell, killed Dec. 7 on ship U.S.S. Oklahoma." On Navy Day, a plane dropped the daisy over the spot where the Oklahoma sank. To Mrs. Campbell, the Navy sent a message: "Your flower has been delivered...
...Southern airport thousands of civilians, waiting their turn to board a plane, swarmed over the frozen field. At night they huddled together in a drafty, bomb-blasted hangar. In the day they stood in the wan sunlight shaking the chill from their limbs as C-46s droned in monotonously from dawn till dusk. As Communist troops drew nearer and nearer, the panicky ticket holders began to riot. After Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport made its last flight out of Mukden, those who could set out in automobiles and mule carts to run the Communist gauntlet to Yingkow...
Eastern Airlines has a plane today at 2:35 p.m., you'll make Princeton by 5:56 p.m. after a 13-minute stay in Newark...
Another system would require a plane of odd design, putting the cockpit in the rear just ahead of the tail surfaces (see drawing). When the pilot wanted to bail out, he would detach the whole tail-and-cockpit. The plane would fly on, while the tail cone pulled a parachute from behind the pilot's seat. When it had slowed the cockpit to a safe speed, the pilot could bail out with his own parachute...
...message, though lengthier, was not on the same plane as the first telegraphed message-Samuel Morse's "What hath God Wrought...