Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every train and plane from the Balkans brought to Britain last week pictures of King Edward looking really happy for the first time since he came to the Throne. Previous shots of His Majesty had been so notably lugubrious as to start the rumor that "since his father's death, King Edward has never smiled." At least one British weekly took the new pictures last week as text to prove that "top-drawer" Britons decidedly bore Edward VIII, while he visibly expands in such company as that of Mrs. Simpson, "a real wisecracking American...
Last week, with 83 little pronghorns carefully wrapped in burlap bags and resting in two rows in the plane, Rancher Belden and Pilot Monday took off from Pitchfork, began dropping antelope all across the nation. The Chicago and Philadelphia Zoos each got a pair and three were delivered at the National Zoo in Washington. Then the plane buzzed on to New York, where eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick...
Over Dayton, Ohio, last week curvetted three new little airplanes, undergoing rigorous U. S. Army Air Corps tests in its present search for an advanced type training plane. Two of the entries were from factories which have long supplied the Army with good planes (North American, Northrop). They were therefore less interesting to onlookers than the third competitor, a stubby little monoplane entered by Seversky Aircraft Corp., a five-year-old firm which in the past twelvemonth has mushroomed from almost nothing to top-notch military importance...
With every hot-blooded Bolshevik boiling to send Soviet bombing planes to aid the beleaguered Reds of Spain, unavoidable dispute waxed in the Kremlin last week between Joseph Stalin and colleagues of the cold-blooded Dictator. In the end not a single Russian plane left for Spain last week and the whole issue was abruptly crowded out of Soviet news-organs by one more of the sensational "Trotsky conspiracies" which are regularly discovered each time it is tactically necessary to divert Russian minds from something else...
...moment at the airport, eventually bought a Curtiss JN4D ("Jenny"). A onetime Army officer named Vernon C. Omlie taught her to fly it. Year later, after he had also taught her how to walk wings, make parachute jumps, hang by her teeth or swing from a trapeze on one plane to another in midair, they were married, went barnstorming as "The Flying Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted to a U. S. woman. In 1929-30-31 she walked off with the chief feminine prizes at the National Air Races. Finally, in 1932, after...