Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maine, Ottawa, Aklavik, Nome, Karaginski, and Tokyo-to Nanking and the flooded valley of the Yangtze River. They were driven down by darkness in Alaska, by fog in Japan; they were lost, went hungry, almost wrecked, were caught in a burning building, discovered a stowaway in their plane, were nearly mobbed by famished Chinese, had to swim for their lives in the dangerous Yangtze when their plane went over. Last week Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in a disarmingly modest record of the flight, apologized that it had not been more exciting as an adventure, of greater value scientifically, or of more...
...John Hay Whitney who missed the opening day's races for the first time in years. Governor and Mrs. Herbert Lehman motored from Albany the fourth day of the meet. Sportsman F. Ambrose Clark, who spends the night at his Saratoga cottage only when it rains, commuted by plane from Cooperstown. In the crowd that saw Al Vanderbilt's Postage Due win the United States Hotel Stakes were New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Producer George White, Sportsman Joseph E. Widener and, wearing the aged panama hat which is his uniform for the Saratoga season...
...fascination the Press watched the Enigma Woman's fixed, prim smile as she arrived by plane in Chicago, stubbornly stuck to her story of innocence, finally declared, "Oh well, I might as well get it over with. Sure, I killed him. . . . Blanche didn't pay me a cent of the $500. ... I tried to get Harry Jung to help me cut up Ervin but he got sick at the sight of the blood. He was sitting in an automobile outside, scared half to death...
Director Vidal, sticking stubbornly to his thesis that a plane at such a price is possible, told a conference of the National Association of Aviation Editors last week that the development of a $700 plane had not materialized because the $500,000 allotment promised by PWA had been withheld as a result of the activities of an aircraft manufacturers' lobby. Many light plane manufacturers believe Mr. Vidal is "chasing rainbows," resent his "flivver plane" program because they feel it causes sales resistance to the present product...
...manufacturer, Edward Porterfield of Kansas City, undertook last week to tell Mr. Vidal "the facts of life about the aircraft business." Mr. Porterfield's complaint: "I'm strong for the $700 plane when it comes, but we haven't got it and I don't believe in kidding the public instead of inspiring confidence in present planes...