Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jensen was a small woman, and you misquoted her-as did all other papers-upon the arrival of her second-prize-winning husband. Everyone, especially Mrs. Jensen, was expecting Martin Jensen in first, as last reports had indicated that he was leading. Even after Art Goebel's plane had been sighted in the distance, the eager crowd thought it was Jensen's machine. Mrs. Jensen collapsed when she saw that the leader wasn't her "Marty." About two hours later Jensen's Aloha landed. Happy though she was that Martin was safely on the ground again...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh went last week to aviation school. By direction of President Coolidge, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air corps at Selfridge Field, Mich. He will fly the latest army pursuit plane; participating as an ordinary military pilot in routine gunnery training exercises; concentrating on machine gunnery fire at stationary targets and targets towed by other planes...
Leaving Philadelphia to keep a promise, he darted toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...
...elusive subjects such as the reticent Mr. Coolidge or the secretive government of Rumania. With her contract in vaudeville finished, as well as her connections with movies, beauty clays, and other such gold mines, Miss Elder may retire, as safe from the headlines as the pilot who flew her plane across the ocean...
Life today is far removed from the plane on which every man looks out for himself and cares not at all what happens to his neighbor. It altruistic motives are fundamentally lacking in the character of the individual he is usually forced to a realization of the great purpose of social service through his purely selfish interests. Every manufacturer and employer of labor knows that he must take an interest in his employees' welfare as an insurance on his own success. That such selfish interests alone should actuate welfare work is to be deplored...