Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Robert E. Lee. Orator at the dedication was RFChairman Jesse Jones, who, as the biggest man in Houston, founded by Texas' most famed Hero, rivals Vice President John Nance Garner for the current title of No. 1 Texan. Duty done, Mr. Jones hopped off for Houston by plane...
...Pilot Hefley put the ship into a sharp dive. At 275 m.p.h. it hurtled downward, pancaked on the nearest field, slithered to a stop. Out from their blazing little hole Jesse Jones and three fellow-passengers yanked the pilots, arms and faces seared and sooty. Few minutes later the plane was smoking ashes...
...when it seemed the fight was winning and that the plane might be landed, you came back and warned your passengers that the landing would be rough. You unlocked the door so that all could escape from the burning plane. . . . You did this when your hands were burned to the bone. You could hardly hold the key. I pray God for the knowledge to understand for what purpose He saved my life by sacrificing yours...
Down to a three-point at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal one day last week slid a little Boeing pursuit plane with a hood over its single cockpit. Out of it, grinning broadly, jumped a chunky, bald pilot who had just made the first completely "blind" flight across...
...pilot was the Army's famed Major Ira T. Eaker, onetime co-holder of the world's endurance flight record. Five days previously he had taken off from New York with only his dashboard, his radio compass to guide him. For safety's sake a second plane convoyed him all the way, giving occasional information by radio. There were eight stops. Said Pilot Eaker: "We had two 'incidents.' Both were thunderstorms, and both were second hand as far as I was concerned...