Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Varney's Fare Sirs: In the issue of TIME, dated Jan. 25, under the heading of "Skylounges," you state that United Air Lines non-stop service between New York and Chicago is the world's first extra-fare plane service. You overlooked the fact that the Varney Speed Lines, which formerly operated Lockheed planes between San Francisco and Los Angeles, had an extra-fare service...
...Bureau of Air Commerce was created in 1933 as a subdivision of the Department of Commerce, handsome Director Eugene Luther Vidal at once became the butt of incessant attacks. When the Bureau investigated crashes, he was accused of whitewashing his subordinates. When he devoted time to developing a "$700 plane" for private flyers, airlines screamed that he was neglecting them. When Bureau airway aids became outdated because the Government cut Bureau funds 40%, Gene Vidal got the blame. When Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in a crash. Senator Copeland's investigating committee recommended Gene Vidal's resignation, commented...
...soon have stiff competition: last week the Texas Legislature was considering an "emergency" bill to permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep...
...details of the plan, they will provide many possibilities for experimentation. For one thing, the selection of books may be stimulating and varied, but must never be overburdensome in number or recondite in treatment. Again, any examinations will, necessarily, be on a comprehensive plane; they might well pose unusual questions which will stir the creative brain cells rather more than memory. Tangible incentives might take the form of certificates, individual prizes, or House trophies, or a combination of several. In any case it must always be kept in mind that the plan should be as all-inclusive as possible; that...
...ceiling lifted again when Boeing's friend Eddie Hubbard contracted to fly the mail from Seattle to Victoria. Boeing got into non-military aviation by furnishing a flying boat which became "the first U. S. plane in international mail service." Next year the company began to ride high as Boeing snagged an Army contract for 200 pursuit planes. Such jobs kept him thriving until 1927, when he again jumped into commercial aviation with what his competitors considered a suicidally low bid for the first Chicago-San Francisco air mail contract. Starting at scratch, he managed to get his planes...