Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lavish money-spending plant, charged high prices, black-listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted this year when Warners used his place for exterior shots in In Caliente (TIME, June 3). Into this playtime idyl last week crashed Mexico's ascetic President Lázaro Cárdenas...
Even more radical in design than the Hammond is the tailless plane developed in California by an oldtime test pilot named Waldo Deane Waterman. Tall, sandy-haired, pipe-smoking Inventor Waterman, previously known for his experiments with a low-wing tailless monoplane called the Waterman Whatsit, has produced as his new model a high-wing ship called the Arrowplane. This highly unconventional design features V-shaped wings which sweep back to tapering tips on which are mounted vertical rudder fins. The ailerons are so rigged that they also serve as elevators, thus simplifying control. The chunky two-place cabin...
...tried for two weeks to spin it and couldn't," said Director Vidal in officially accepting the plane for his department. Even had they succeeded, the Arrowplane would have righted itself automatically after two turns...
...This," grinned lanky Inventor Waterman after his demonstration, "is the plane that designers said was impossible." He has been experimenting with airplane design for 25 of his 41 years, has spent three years on his present ship, believes it could retail for $800 if produced in quantity...
Only three days before a Royal Dutch plane had cracked up in Persia. Six days before a KLM Fokker had killed six in a crash near Amsterdam. Seven were killed in a crash in April, and six died in the wreck of KLM's famed Uiver ("Stork") last December in Syria...