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Word: planing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Complaints from residents of Boston that the army plane which gave up nightly to secure weather data has been disturbing their sleeping hours are scheduled to be answered because of new apparatus developed at the Blue Hill Observatory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Hill Observers Use Balloon For First Time Successfully For Air Data | 12/1/1936 | See Source »

...airplane is the expense of the apparatus, which, when sent up from Blue Hill, is usually blown out to sea and lost. The average cost of the balloons, weather and radio equipment, and batteries, for one complete unit is about $40, while the average charge to charter a plane for one weather flight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Hill Observers Use Balloon For First Time Successfully For Air Data | 12/1/1936 | See Source »

...flight began immediately after the regular weather airplane run from the Boston airport, which reported a temperature of 9 below zero Fahrenheit at a height of 17,000 feet, as high as the plane went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Hill Observers Use Balloon For First Time Successfully For Air Data | 12/1/1936 | See Source »

Manufacturers may still sell military planes to foreign powers, but few first-class customers will take two-year-old models. U.S. military plane exports in the last six months: Argentina, $285,000; China, $948,012; Mexico, $299,904; Russia; $117,676; Brazil, $9,600; Holland $1,162,600; Japan, $63,000; Ecuador, $125,550; Honduras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Air Pressure | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Neill; and the exhumation in California for reburial in their homeland of twelve tons of Chinese cadavers. Eye- worthy also (and a news beat) was a skyscape drawn by Artist F. R. Paul to show what levels will be traversed by Transcontinental & Western Air's proposed "Overweather" plane which is to fly sealed at around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: LIFE Launched | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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