Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rushed south by plane following its passage, the new Neutrality Act (see p. 16) was ferried out to the Potomac where the President signed it a few hours before the old Neutrality Act expired. He promptly issued a new proclamation declaring Spain at war and forbidding export of arms to Rebels or 'Loyalists...
...burlesque theatre ever pretended to be on the same moral plane as a theological seminary. Columnist Westbrook Pegler recalls a pre-War burlesque house on State Street in Chicago where, after the performance, the comedian auctioned off the girls to members of the audience, "who claimed them then and there and took them, still in costume, to the beer hall in the rear. Possibly they married and settled down in the suburbs to raise large families of respectable Americans, but from the way things seemed to be going about midnight that was impossible." Pre-War burlesque, however...
...last week defending plane scouring the skies caught sight of a small squadron of the attackers, one battleship and a few fast cruisers, which had steamed ahead of the rest of the fleet. They were heading not for strategic Oahu but for the island of Hawaii, largest of the group which lies some 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. Hilo, second largest city of th Islands, situated on Hawaii, received warning an hour in advance. Its airport was evacuated. Within a few minutes bombers from the fleet circled overhead dropping hypothetical explosives. In short time the squadron standing off-shore...
...miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...
Undismayed by this slight miscalculation, and recognizing the fact that no other train would get to the fray in time, Owens turned to the aerial route. Catching the morning plane to New York and then carrying on to Elmira, Owens found he was still 40 miles from Ithaca. This distance was overcome by the opportune appearance of a friend...