Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane with a distinguished waiting list...
Prizefighter Gene Tunney a year ago flew in a Sikorsky Amphibian the 150 miles from Speculator, N. Y., to New York City. To insure his life for $300,000 and the plane for $30,000 during the single, short trip, his insurance company charged a premium of $1,000. Another company might have charged more, another less. No one knows what is a fair rate for aviation insurance risks. Whatever standards exist are constantly fluctuating and depend on a multitude of conditions and contingencies. To help the insurance companies fix standards the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics...
...Russian immigrant, he founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...
...years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...
...Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde were floating out over Lewisohn Stadium last week, an airplane swooped low over the city, its roar and honk drowning out Conductor van Hoogstraten's orchestra and Edwin Franko Goldman's able, obliging band. Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay at least 3,000 feet above...