Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paris palpitated with reports last week that in French North Africa the Arabs were "rising" against the Jews. Instanter Jewish Premier Léon Blum rushed home from Geneva and summoned to Paris by plane Governor General of Algeria Georges Le Beau. Consternation increased as Minister of Interior Roger Salengro confided to reporters that he feared "a veritable war of religions is breaking out in North Africa...
...muster with Mrs. Eckstein were to be Willem van Hoogstraten. Hans Lange, Werner Janssen and three local men- Henry Weber, Rudolph Ganz, Isaac Van Grove. Whatever ghosts of old operatic voices lingered in the Ravinia rafters, Conductor Ansermet drowned them out with Wagner, Stravinsky, Liszt, Berlioz before taking a plane to California to open the agreeable summer concerts of the Hollywood Bowl...
Armament limitations forced young Germans to develop motorless flying after the War. Product of one ill wind, gliding failed to profit from another. Depression curtailed plane companies' interest in the sport. U. S. manufacture of gliders soon ceased. Some enthusiasts bought their planes from Germany, others built them at home. Groups pooled their resources, formed more clubs, mainly because there were not enough ships to go around. Not 1,000,000 pilots but a bare 70, cream of the total U. S. crop of some 2,500, were at Elmira, N. Y. last week for the seventh annual meet...
Gliding-the pastime of coasting downhill just above the ground in a motorless plane supported by the air current that moves up the hill-is today merely an introduction to the infinitely more exciting sport of soaring. Soaring is three-dimensional sailing whereby, to achieve altitude and distance, an expert has his choice of four types of air current: 1) hill-deflected winds, 2) thermal currents from warm spots on the ground, 3) upcurrents under cumulus clouds, 4) explosive updrafts preceding a thunderstorm. At Elmira, long ago selected as the best soaring spot in the U. S. because its prevailing...
From Frankfurt a special plane escorted by German air-force fighters carried Schmeling to Berlin where 500 amateur boxers in blue tights waited as a guard of honor with the Realmleader's personal adjutant, Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Brückner. State Secretary Walther Funk of the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rushed broad-beamed Max Schmeling off to dine with small, club-footed Paul Joseph Goebbels. "I am delighted with the Hindenburg," said Herr Schmeling. "I hope my fight with Braddock won't be as hard as the one with Louis...