Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock has been sent up frequently in a Weather Bureau airplane from East Boston airport since last April. Although flights were discontinued for a time because of two crashes in foggy weather, they have been recently resumed. A clear and immediate record of conditions as high as the plane goes is now received at Blue Hill...
...said a lot of things. It upset me, unstrung me.'' On the floor of the St. Louis Merchants Exchange where he is currently reported making his third fortune after his second bankruptcy, Jesse Livermore Sr. was notified of the shooting. Silently he and his third wife took plane for California. On the second day doctors operated to drain fluid from the boy's pierced lung, still dared not touch the bullet. Uncertain whether he would live, police jailed Mrs. Livermore for attempted murder. Up & down the hospital corridor paced Jesse Livermore Sr., swearing that...
...born in St. Louis in 1894. His parents moved to California when he was 9. Young Edwin had progressed as far as the second year in a Los Angeles high school when he went to watch the Dominguez air races. Enthralled, he and his friends attempted to build a plane, a flimsy contraption which got nine feet, off the ground, pancaked quietly into a puddle. "Ed" Musick retained his absorption in aviation, has engaged in nothing else since. Quitting high school, he took a commercial flying course in 1913. During the War he served as civilian instructor in the Army...
...flying, he has spent a total of a year and four months in the air, has made 120 trips to foreign nations, has passed through the U. S. Customs more than 2,000 times. One of the few pilots in the world licensed to fly any kind of plane, he holds more world records (ten) than any flyer in the world, has never had an accident...
...spite of this record, Capt. Musick has remained virtually unknown to the public. He refuses to show off or make wisecracks for newsmen. He has never been known to stunt in a plane, never makes a flight without the most meticulous preparations, even refuses to tie up to a mark until it has been tested. Completely lacking in vanity, he refuses to discuss his career even with such close friends as Navigator Noonan, with whom he bunks when on duty...