Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroiters witnessed what they thought was the first religious skywriting since the invention of the airplane:* a plane which inscribed an eleven-mile-long JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
Then he stepped aboard a plane for Baroda. "What happens to me is all up to my people," said the Maharaia. "Politics are never fair, are they?" He added that he hoped to be back in Britain in time for the fall racing season...
Singer Jane Fromain was finally back on her feet, and looking in the 'pink (see cut). She sang without crutches-in a New Jersey nightclub-for the first time since the plane she rode crashed at Lisbon, Portugal, back...
...Plane Profits. For the first half of its fiscal year, Douglas Aircraft Co. had a profit of $424,951, compared with a loss of $752,307 in the corresponding period last year. For the nine months ending in June, North American Aviation, Inc. netted $1,258,185 (v. $303,847). Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., which had been flying at high altitude, came down some: for the first half of the year it had a profit of $1,027,707, down more than 21% from last year...
...Aboard. Numbed by "the dull ache of parting with my creditors," Traveler Perelman took off from New York carrying a machete, cummerbunds, maps, and "an apparatus for distilling seawater." First stop was a world-famous shrine in Camden, N.J. named Joe's Coffee Pot, where the plane was grounded. Second stop was Hollywood, where Traveler Perelman had scrimped a living in the '30s. " 'I'd rather be embalmed here than any place I know,' [Hirschfeld] said slowly. He turned up the collar of his trench coat and lit a cigarette, and in the flare...