Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last autumn, members of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce were thrown into a state of delighted anticipation by news that 1) two Soviet aviators had flown a stolen Russian plane to Linz, Austria, and taken refuge with U.S. forces there, and 2) that each had voiced a desire to see, not Hollywood or the Statue of Liberty, but the Commonwealth of Virginia. They had heard its glories sung on a Voice of America broadcast beamed to the U.S.S.R...
...switch on "Lost Horizon" involves French Foreign Legionnaires instead of victims of a plane crush...
...answer immediately, since much of the material I needed was in Europe. I was told that a decision on my case would take four to six weeks. I didn't want to spend that time at Ellis Island, so I asked to be permitted to take the next plane out." The Justice Department said...
...Weather Bureau, is that they don't pick the right kind of cloud. Unless at least part of the cloud is below freezing, the dry ice will not work. Another mistake: using too much dry ice. A few pounds per mile are usually enough. If the plane dumps too much, too many ice particles are formed. They are so light that they do not fall. The overdose of dry ice merely turns the cloud of water droplets into a cloud of floating ice crystals...
Aircraft. Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. plans to regroom and speed up the 13-year-old DC-3, the obsolescent workhorse of the airlines. To meet new competition, Douglas, which stopped building the plane four years ago, will increase the passenger seats of the "Threes" from 21 to 28. New engines will boost their cruising speed as much as 45 m.p.h. (to 234 m.p.h.). Other changes: a square-tipped wing, and built-in steps for quicker passenger loading...