Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swallow does not make a summer. One plane does not make an airforce. Nevertheless, the approval of the U. S. State Department, given last week, to the purchase by Mexico of a Ford-Stout all-metal monoplane like the one in which Mrs. Lindbergh, Engineer William B. Stout & Mrs. Stout & friends flew from Detroit to Mexico City, was welcomed in Mexico and discussed in Washington as the harbinger of a general lifting by the State Department of the embargo on U. S. planes sold to Mexico. In approving purchase of the single plane, which the Mexican government said it wanted...
...plane roars, shivers, wheels away, rises. The Mexican crowd cries: "Adios, Hermanito (Little Brother), adios...
Belize. The Spirit of St. Louis hovers uncertainly over a polo field, swerves downward, barely missing a skein of telegraph wires, touches and runs almost to the field's end; The crowd cries in wonder. Col. Lindbergh has brought his plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism...
During the fall season, the first for the club's own plane, 270 flights have been made and 56 guests of the club members carried. The ship has now been dismantled for overhauling and retiming, and will be reassembled to begin flying again on March...
...Jack were only here," but he denied saying that a young woman had sued the Inter-urban for breach of promise. No doubt the result will be as usual, simply that good newspaper editors will attribute the degeneracy of the tunnel system to modern youth and the generally low plane of New York's busy life...