Word: planed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling orange, lemon, grapefruit trees, no water. Paradise has gone...
Despite the fact that everyone except the wives and mothers of the men on board the PN9 No. 1?giant plane which vanished a fortnight ago, somewhere in the neighborhood of Hawaii?had come to the conclusion that the airship had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific or been crushed in its waves, rumors persisted that it had been found with all its crew alive. Such a message was picked up by an amateur radio operator...
...plane, undamaged by landing, had floated buoyantly. On the first morning the men exchanged Navy ribaldries while they waited for a rescue which was sure to take place within a few hours. After four days their emergency rations of beans, hardtack, dried bread, chocolate, were exhausted. A merchant steamer hove into sight, insubstantial as a silhouette cut out of blue paper. The PN9 sent up furious signals. The ship dwindled to a smoke, vanished. The airplane's radio operator picked up a message which stated that at a conference of pilots on the U. S. S. Langley it was unanimously...
...Willy, Willy, all right." Gulls clanged overhead. Sharks gloated in the water about the plane, flashing their bellies and clamping their cruel, effeminate jaws in a manner that has been described in thousands of sea stories. Water gave out. Commander Rodgers produced a tiny still which he carried along, absurd machine though it was, because his mother asked him to. With it he made the sea water drinkable, and kept himself and his crew alive until the submarine grooved a way to them...
...passed. Apprehension grew. Planes put out from Hawaii. Eighteen destroyers of the line were ordered from Samoa to join in the search, and proceeded "with orderly haste" to do as they were told. That hope was dying became manifest in the furious urgency with which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain...