Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican for 14 years, Mrs. Bok opened a series of nationwide broadcasts entitled "Happy Days," sponsored by the Democratic National Committee. Declared she: "In three years Mr. Roosevelt has established our foreign relations on such a high plane that even his political foes do not question his policies. In domestic affairs, he has released the forces of economic recovery after one of the worst depressions in history. Why should the country turn away from such a capable and experienced leader...
High over Berkane, border town in French Morocco, sounded the mighty roar of airplane motors last week. A flight of huge bombing planes was boring west toward the Spanish border. Suddenly engines choked, sputtered for lack of gasoline. One plane dropped into the sea. Another smashed up on landing, killing the pilot, two members of the crew and seriously injuring another. A third got down safely, but with empty tanks...
...troops held Madrid, Barcelona, Toledo and most of the fertile east coast. Rebel Generalissimo Franco was stymied in the south. Seville he held, and Córdoba and Granada. He had been able to move his headquarters from Morocco to Seville, to ferry about 300 soldiers a day by plane to the mainland. But he was unable to march against Madrid, and fiery-eyed Communist militia still kept him out of Málaga. Government forces, on the other hand, were still unable to capture Zaragoza, strongest military garrison...
...young man who taught King Edward to fly and usually pilots his plane, Flight Lieutenant Edward Hedley Fielden, became history's first "Captain of the King's Flight...
...recounting how a number of "Masters" (i. e., veteran spirits) transported him "by their mental power," on a lengthy tour of the great cities of the world. The ability of spirits to visit the Earth, Brandon makes clear, has nothing to do with their life on the "Astral" plane, from which eventually they may ascend to a "Spiritual" plane. Spirit Brandon broadly corroborates the view held by many Spiritualists: The Astral plane is divided into nations corresponding to those of the world below. On that plane, he implies, spirits speak the same languages they spoke on Earth...