Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane was apparently intact when it first struck. Scars on the ground showed it hit three times before the final crash. After the first two bounces Collison seemed somehow to have gained 200 ft. of altitude, although the undercarriage was smashed and the engines lost, and failed by a tragic ten feet to clear the last hill which might have enabled him to make a "bellyskid" landing on the slope beyond...
What had caused this first fatal crack-up in some 28,000,000 miles of United Airlines' flying, officials could not explain. Pilot Collison had flown 1,000,000 miles without accident, seemed not the man to have fallen asleep or stalled his plane. An immediate Department of Commerce investigation was ordered...
...Should the wireless station be destroyed by Italian bombers, correspondents can use the telegraph line which follows the country's only railroad into French Somaliland. Should both wireless and telegraph be destroyed, dispatches can be sent by runners to Gallabat, in the Sudan, or by chartered plane to the British cable station at Khartoum, 500 mi. from Addis Ababa...
...Back at stodgy U. S. desks last week were Harry Snyder, wealthy Chicago oilman, and George G. Goodwin, assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, after a grueling specimen-hunting expedition which set a record for distance covered in northwest Canada-7,000 miles by plane, pack horse, pack dog, flat-bottomed boat, legwork. The party risked drowning in the Nahanni River. A storm almost blew their plane into Great Slave Lake. Mr. Goodwin was almost eaten by black flies, bulldog flies, midges and mosquitoes while from a blind he filmed giant, sharp-humped wood buffalo...
...with his elder brother Frank. The only two survivors of the original five Ball brothers, they make the Ball fruit-jar known to all housewives. They both live in show places on the banks of the White River in Muncie, summering in Leland, Mich. Brother Frank, 77, commutes by plane from Leland but his younger brother, who is 72, refuses to fly. The extensive Ball philanthropies include a $1,000,000 hospital, a $1,000,000 Masonic Temple and the Ball State Teachers College. Besides the lucrative fruit-jar business, world's biggest, the Balls's interests include...