Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the nation was able to pursue its policy of keeping hands off and playing square in the Spanish crisis. But Mr. Cuse of Jersey City is reported to be the biggest dealer in second-hand aircraft and plane parts in the U. S. Mr. Cuse's obscure but active Vimalert Co. Ltd. has been reconditioning and selling planes and parts here & there-including, through Amtorg, the U. S. S. R.-for the past 15 years. Mr. Cuse is listed with the State Department as a salesman of everything lethal from a bomb to a battleship. When Chief Green...
United Air Lines is proud of many things-that it is the oldest U. S. airline; that it flies more passenger plane-miles and traffic ton-miles than any other airline; that it makes money. Not the least of United's prides has been its record on its most popular run-the 363 miles between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Since acquiring twin-motored transports seven years ago. United has flown as many as 30 planes a day over this mountainous, two-hour route with a reliability comparable to the Pennsylvania Railroad's service between New York...
...plane, a twin-motored Boeing, had left San Francisco at 5:30 that afternoon, streaked down the San Joaquin Valley at some 200 m.p.h. toward the first stop at Burbank. Aboard were two pilots, pretty Hostess Yvonne Trego, and nine passengers, including a member of Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra, an artist from Walt Disney's studio and young Edward Thomas Ford Jr., son of the vice president of the Grace Lines, with his pretty wife. The weather was not bad: at Bakersfield the ceiling was 3,500 ft., at Burbank 3,000 ft. The peaks on both sides...
...they had been much moved by reading some 50,000 words of his private daily diary covering 1936. In Oriental eyes there was nothing preposterous about all thisidnapped Premier & Generalissimo's extremely businesslike and beauteous Wellesley-graduate wife, Mme Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling), left Nanking courageously by plane for the kidnappers' lair at Sian in Central China. With her flew her brother, T. V. Soong, Chairman of the Bank of China, and that enigmatic Australian "adviser," William H. Donald, who has been attached at various times for a number of years to both Kidnapper Chang and Kidnappee Chiang...
...French proprietor of a motorcycle shop owned a French biplane which he crashed during an exhibition. Chagrined, he dumped the wreckage in his back yard. To chubby, 17-year-old Juan de la Cierva and two cronies, this was tempting bait. They offered to rebuild the plane if the Frenchman would test-fly it. Laughingly he agreed. All that was salvageable were the motor and wheels. All the resources the three boys had were $60 and a knowledge of arithmetic. Nonetheless, to Madrid's amazement, their jerry-built contraption flew. It was the first Spanish plane...