Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through which they looked was made of a recently developed material called Polaroid, and the headlight lenses were backed by plates of the same stuff. Polaroid polarizes light. Reduced to simplest terms, polarization is a process of "combing out" a beam of light so that it vibrates in one plane only. Laymen understand polarization more readily if they imagine that a beam of light, vibrating in all directions, is a flight of straws blown along helter-skelter by the wind. If the straws collide with a picket fence, some will pass through if they happen to be aligned vertically with...
...Queen Mary before her maiden voyage (see col. 3). At the controls was his longtime personal pilot, unassuming Flight Lieutenant Edward H. Fielden. Queen Mary and other members of the royal family had come down by train, were already at the quay-side as King Edward's plane landed. For five hours the public was kept away as the royal family went over the ship from stem to stern, lunched together in private. Irrepressible Princess Elizabeth loudly demanded to be shown the children's nursery, screamed with excitement when she was allowed to push a button that sent...
Before each flight, all commercial airlines presumably avail themselves of the best meteorological information their own or the Department of Commerce's air weather bureaus can provide. Whether a plane takes off usually depends on a unanimous decision by the line's dispatcher, meteorologist and the pilot, who in any case cannot be sent up against his will. The Department of Commerce controls plane movements to this extent: According to its size and surrounding terrain, every U. S. airport has an arbitrary ceiling, below which no outbound plane may take off, no inbound plane land...
...Toledo-born scholar of international law; by Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the celebrated Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with the late pilot "Jimmy" Wedell (Wedell-Williams); in an airplane crash; at Baton Rouge, La. Died. Commander Elmer F. Stone, U. S. N., 49, co-pilot of the seaplane N-C 4 which in 1919 made the first transatlantic flight; of a heart attack; in San Diego...
...seemed a lifetime but turns out to have been only nine days. He gathers that some nameless comrade has given himself up as Kassner, has doubtless already been beaten to death or shot. Given 48 hours to leave Germany, Kassner has one chance of getting safely away: a rickety plane piloted by a fellow-Communist. Though the weather is so stormy that all passenger planes are grounded, they take off. beat through a blinding storm to Prague. There Kassner sees once more his wife and child, gets a breathing space before going back to his Party's work...