Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U. S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle against Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White planes. Payment for their services: $1,500 a month plus $1,000 for each White plane brought down...
...entire sheaf of other solutions, drafted in legal form by the King's personal Attorney General Walter Turner Monckton, lie ready to the royal hand. The Captain of the King's Flight, famed "Mouse" Fielden, is under orders to keep His Majesty's private plane tuned day & night, ready for instant takeoff. The pitch of the crisis remains screwed up to a dry screech. His Majesty King Edward VIII refuses to receive even his royal brothers, the Dukes of York, Gloucester and Kent...
...destructive power of 400-lb. and 500-lb. bombs dropped by the trimotored Insurgent planes almost defies description. Eight and ten story buildings are partly or wholly leveled. So heavy are these messengers of death that the bombing planes tip to one side and wobble a little as they are released. The city is singularly helpless and defenseless against attacks from the air because the Government's anti-aircraft armament is practically useless. About a dozen machine guns and one-pounders, handled by woefully in expert militiamen, have not brought down a single enemy plane...
...local churches, the rest by private donations, John D. Rockefeller Jr. being put down for a modest contribution. With details of transportation handled by Secretary Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council's Department of Evangelism, the tour went off without mishap. Traveling simply by train and plane, members of Preaching Mission "teams" kept themselves physically fit by eschewing whatever social functions they might have been invited to, spiritually consecrated by dropping to their knees at 8 a.m. breakfasts in prayer with local ministerial committees formed to collaborate with them wherever they went...
Destination Plane Railr'd Lower BerthNew Orleans 157.90 69.85 19.50Washington 46.90 29.20 7.50Miami...