Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power to straighten it out. This problem is the relationship in foreign fields of the State Department's diplomatic and consular representatives and the Commerce Department's commercial attaches. As Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Hoover greatly multiplied these commercial attaches and raised them to a new plane of importance. He picked shrewd men who knew U. S. business and sent them forth to scout the world for new markets. Inevitably they have clashed with the regular foreign service men, producing keen rivalry...
Each candidate will be expected to go to the airport at least one afternoon a week to work on the plane and to help the field manager in any way possible. There will also be a small amount of clerical work to be done. At the end of the competition, from ten to 15 men will be elected to membership in the club. These may start flying at once upon their election and will be entitled to take a full course of instruction under licensed transport pilots...
...chief handicap is Mexico City's altitude, a mile above sea level, where the thin atmosphere makes it difficult for a plane to rise with enough gasoline for the distance. In 1927, Col. Lindbergh flew in the reverse direction, from Washington to Mexico City, arriving with light tanks...
Shortly afterward Hero Lindbergh inaugurated the Mexico City-Brownsville, Tex., air mail route, flying a tri-motor Ford plane. Prior to the Colonel's departure from Mexico City...
Aviation Corp., nominally a $200,000,000 holding and development company underwritten by Lehman Bros, and W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc. They will at first offer only $40,000,000 of stock to buy substantial interests in all branches of aviation (plane manufacture, motors, accessories, transport). William Averell Harriman is chairman of the directorate, Robert Lehman chairman of the executive committee...