Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After many a fruitless interview with churchmen who were reluctant to allow him even to fly a plane of his own in Africa, Father Schulte received the blessings of his namesake (but no kinsman), Joseph Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne. Soon after, in 1927, Father Schulte raised some money, founded the Missionalium Vehiculorum Associatio or Missions-Verkchrs-Arbeitsgemeinschajt ("Missionary Communications Association"). Calling it MIVA for short, Father Schulte chose as its motto: Obmam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ on land and sea and in the air"). In 1929 he made his first journey...
...though seen from a distant hilltop. It is a walled city of the fifteenth century, shining in the sunlight among poplar, plane and cypress. The river Adige like a thread of silver. We hear faintly the sound of many bells which grows louder...
...lower plane is the latest effort to link the White House and the Kremlin. Here Elliott Roosevelt is accused of taking exhorbitant commissions from the Fokker company for the sale of aircraft to Russia. It should interest American voters to learn that while a relative of the President is guilty of treason if he sells airplanes to the Russian government, the owners of the Liberty League, the DuPonts, may be partners in German munitions plants without being one degree less patriotic than usual...
Arrow Aircraft Corp. of Lincoln, Neb. claims it is waiting only for the financial aspects of its founding to be settled before going into mass production in a few weeks to fill the 1,000-odd orders for flivver planes it has on hand. Its plane is a conventional lightweight, low-wing monoplane. The Ford motor is set in reverse position so that the propeller is attached where the clutch normally is when the engine is used on an automobile. Ford Motor Co. has no connection with Arrow, sells motors in batches so that they cost Arrow but $150 apiece...
Arrow Aircraft is a new subsidiary of Arrow Aircraft & Motors Corp., oldtime U. S. manufacturer of sport and training planes. Its new flivver plane has been three years in the making, recently passed Bureau of Air Commerce tests...