Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, accompanied by a dozen assistants and reporters, boarded a chartered plane in Chicago, set out on a twelve-day trip through 16 States west of the Mississippi. Like a swiftly moving piece upon a checkerboard, the plane zig-zagged across Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and settled down one afternoon last week at Salt Lake City.* Thus the campaign manager of the Presidential nominee who had declared for a sound currency "convertible into gold" arrived in the heart of the silver country...
...Elsie de Wolfe Inc., international interior decorators, rushed out last week photographs of their Lady Mendl (nee de Wolfe) standing beside King Edward's private plane, but the story got ahead of them, grew bigger than their publicity. They wanted only to point out that Lady Mendl, after decorating the flat of the King's Mrs. Simpson, was recently brought from Paris in the King's plane to lunch with His Majesty at Sunningdale and there commissioned to decorate this rural snuggery. 27 miles from London. Last week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson...
...leave from his royal airdrome at Windsor Great Park, gathered there in genial numbers to wish him Godspeed. Instead the King motored to a nearby private airdrome and forbade his staff to divulge the names of any of the five people who flew away with him in his royal plane, piloted by modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain of the King's Flight. It took the machine exactly 14 minutes to fly the English Channel. At an obscure French air field near Calais vacationing Edward VIII became "the first King of England ever to alight from the air on foreign...
...Memphis had soared off into the dark at 9:56 p. m. with a fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime flyer and husband of equally famed Aviator Phoebe Omlie. Six minutes after the takeoff, the airport called the plane by radio, got no answer By 10:20, when there was still no word anxious officials began querying airport; along...
...motor sounded very loud and suddenly stopped. My wife said, 'That's funny. I wonder if it crashed.'... I dressed and went out. Other people whom I met said the plane had crashed. It was very foggy and I couldn't see 20 feet ahead of me ... so I went back to bed." Had he pushed on to the boundaries of his farm, George Behlmann would have come upon the scene of the third wreck of a U. S. airliner...