Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment with President Roosevelt. Later the bowlegs of Hugh Samuel Johnson carried that old-time cavalryman over the Presidential threshold. And when General Johnson reappeared, it was to announce without much pleasure that he had just been made Federal Works Progress Administrator for New York City. Boarding a plane with his faithful secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, the General therewith flew off to New York...
Then lofting his economic arguments to an even less factual plane, Director Driscoll submitted to the committee a batch of photographs so that the French trade pact negotiators "may be able to visualize by actual observation the contented, happy look of our people...
...April 1928, the German plane Bremen made the first non-stop westbound flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett...
...were spent checking the ship for the second leg of the transpacific air-way-to Midway Island, 1,323 mi. away. Capt. Edwin C. Musick fumigated the cabin from tip to tail to prevent any mosquitoes being taken along. Midway has never had any, does not want any. The plane was loaded with enough fuel to fly to Midway and back nonstop. Also loaded were 5 gal. of ice cream and several cinemas for the Midway colonists...
...office, boathouse with two launches, gasoline & oil storage station, machinery storehouse, radio transmitting and receiving station and radio compass station. In addition there are four houses as living quarters for the staff, other quarters for the help. Some day transpacific air passengers may see these improvements as their plane stops briefly at the Midway base...