Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short, baldish, TWA Pilot Edward A. Bellande, who landed seven passengers with only one minor injury, saved most of his mail when his plane caught fire between San Francisco and Los Angeles...
Gaunt, gangling, Central Airlines Pilot James Henry Carmichael Jr., who made a one-wheel landing at night without injury to his passengers or mail after flying 85 miles back to Washington when one of his plane's three motors fell away with part of the landing gear (TIME...
...delegates repaired with some 3,000 interested Chicagoans to the Stockyards Pavilion for a bang-up convention finish. Millions of other optimstic oldsters were supposed to be listening by radio as, all sordid bickering aside Secretary Clements lifted the Townsend Plan once more to its original lofty plane: "I see a man and woman both past three score and ten, sitting in a humble home out in the Far West. Depression has exacted its cruel toll from them after a life ot good citizenship and pioneering in the Their chief asset now and only compensation is that they have contributed...
...trucks hub-deep had held up the southern advance for days, but now Italian troops, moving again in three columns, had crossed over half the Ogaden Desert, were drawing closer & closer to Harar, chief stronghold of Ras Nassibu, commander of the Ethiopian armies of the south in Ogaden. Scouting planes zooming high over Harar found the inhabitants already streaming off to the hills, only a few squads of soldiers in the streets. Fifty miles south of Harar, southern Ethiopians shot down their first Italian battle plane. Flashed United Press from Harar...
...pass a resolution wishing her "many happy returns." The Chief of Police sent flowers. So did Mayor Angelo Rossi, who is by trade a florist. But what warmed the old heart of Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils most was a pair of solemn little Kerry Blues shipped by special plane from William Randolph Hearst...