Word: planed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when she alighted, plowed through the snow so heavily that her landing gear crumpled; she stumbled forward on her nose, twisted a propeller and wrenched one powerful engine out of its moorings. No Pole flight for her either, for many weeks, and she was the plane that was to freight food and gasoline over the wastes to Point Barrow...
...After the christening ceremony the engines on the larger plane were started for the first time since they left Wright factory. They responded to the starter with a rataplan of cylinder explosions that soon mellowed into a roar. The mechanics said they were satisfied. Captain Wilkins announced he would not attempt any more ambitious tests, such as taxiing across the field, until the crowd had dispersed...
...China movement is the greatest mission work that has ever been undertaken by any University in the world," Dr. Brewer Eddy of the American Board of Foreign Missions told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Yale is the only university which seems able to sustain such a work on a high plane of excellence and efficiency. The institution itself which is maintained entirely by the endowments of Yale men and the efforts of young graduates, as teachers and doctors, exerts a large influence throughout the southern part of China where it is located...
Fort Wayne, Ind., remembers a short, wiry, 16-year-old boy whose parents, in 1910, mortgaged their home for $1,800 that he might fly. He purchased materials, a motor, built a plane, showed his mother how to sew canvas on his wings. His first flight wiped out six months' work all but the motor. He built again, flew at exhibitions, paid off the mortgage. He learned to loop the loop before most U. S. flyers. Soon fleecy streamers of smoke were seen high over cities, spelling out trademarks for advertisers. The Fort Wayne boy had invented "sky-writing...
...weather. But he had not undertaken his job because of the stoutness of his legs and constitution. He had a fleet of aeroplanes, a corps of pilots. He had contracted to whisk letters and packages from Cleveland and Chicago to his home city, Detroit, and vice versa. His first plane, though he was not in it, was met at Cleveland by a fleet of Army pursuit planes. Unloading, loading, it soon sped back with Detroit's first air mail. There the citizens again gave thanks for their genius loci, Mr. Henry Ford. The New York-San Francisco air mail...