Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fairey is a significant name in the British war plane industry. Mr. Charles R. Fairey of Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd., maker of "Fairey Ships," readily testified that his product is cheaper than similar fighting planes made by U. S. firms and that "Fairey sells to all." Cried shocked Professor Harold Gutteridge, a Royal Commissioner: "You have supplied planes to the Soviet Government...
...production as an amusing social comedy but when grave problems are seriously injected, one naturally looks for maturity of thought as well as cleverness of execution. One is thus compelled to note that "End of Summer" is an amusing play which makes the mistake of sliding off the plane of pure comedy and getting unnecessarily mixed up in the complexities of problems that properly lie beyond its scope. Fortunately Miss Claire's charming manner and the excellent acting of Osgood Perkins and the assembled company go far in restoring the play to a more comfortable level...
...always such things in prison and always will be. . . What can we do?" Chicago's Mayor Kelly, out for Governor Horner's scalp, replied: "There should be more watchfulness on the Dart of the guards , The minds of the prisoners should be kept on a healthy plane...
...same taste and the number of ebullient horses which have fallen with His Majesty, spraining his ankle, breaking his collarbone, once kicking him squarely in the face, is further evidence of the stuff in him. In the air King Edward mostly leaves the piloting of his luxurious plane to a professional, playing the genial host to friends above the clouds and shaking cocktails...
Great was the fretting of U. S. airlines in 1932. Having coasted through three years of Depression with old planes, they were in dire need of new equipment, knew of none available that was satisfactory. Into this breach jumped young Donald Wills Douglas with a set of radical aeronautical ideas which he persuaded Transcontinental & Western Air to back. Out of that collaboration rose the DC-1, a 9-ton, twin-motored, low-wing monoplane which revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved...