Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking the Holcombe course than has History. The fact that these three remain unchallenged is one of great importance. When it is observed that only one science course, Biology D, made the grade at all, it can be realized that general interest at present continues along a broader plane and that science still belongs to the specialist...
Without Orders (RKO) contains one exciting sequence in which an airline stewardess (Sally Eilers) takes over the controls of a transport plane in a storm, lands it safely on radio instructions from her pilot boy friend (Robert Armstrong), who is on the ground. For the rest, one more minor-league investigation of air travel implying that this is an adventure rather than a convenience, Without Orders is likely to arouse more indignation from airline executives than enthusiasm from lay audiences. Best and most inevitable shot: the wrecked plane of a stunt flyer (Vinton Haworth) bursting into flames after its crash...
...inexpensive model costs more than $1,000, and the most popular number sells for about $4,000. This model has one lens, is operated automatically by electricity. After the camera is set for the amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound for the next exposure...
Profitable though it has been, the camera and survey division has not been able to offset the aircraft losses. Founder Fairchild built his first plane because he could not find one that suited him for photographic work, starting commercial production in 1926. During Depression engine and aircraft sales shrank to a low of $72,000 (in 1931). Since then Fairchild has entered the transport field, has developed a high-speed amphibian popular with Pan American Airways, is developing for the Navy an in-line air-cooled motor. Sales recovered to $511,000 last year, and a comfortable backlog of orders...
Flying up to Manchester in his own plane, Terris Moore, renowned Alpiner, led and instructed a Mountaineering Club expedition in its assault on Joe English Hill yesterday. Moore was a member of the first party ever to scale Minya Konds. 24,990 foot Chinese peak...