Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official and no underling could be found with enough spunk to fly to the Dictator and deliver this resolution. Hence it was sent by telegraph. Dictator Chiang had only one advantage. He was so far in the wilds of West China that not even a Japanese bombing plane was likely to molest him. Warily he set part of the troops in his personal pay moving slowly toward North China. That Chiang planned any serious resistance to Japan few Chinese dared hope, and he did not go with his troops last week but stayed behind in the city of Chengtu with...
Amid all this Chinese woe there was one Great Power whose leader last week made a gesture friendly to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Benito Mussolini sent to him as a gift a monster four- motored Italian bombing plane worth...
Tipped off before the bidless box was opened, Premier Hepburn hopped back to Toronto by plane from the bush, where he had been fishing with-of all people- President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines (gold), "richest bachelor in Canada," and Manhattan's legendary speculator, Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, who is called a "money magnate'' in the Dominion Press. The Government's counter attack was planned at Jack Bickell's home located at Port Credit. "The financial interests undertook to discipline the Government of Ontario because of its stand on the power purchase...
...Last month TWA's Sky Chief, en route from Los Angeles to Kansas City, cracked up in a Missouri fog, killed both its pilots, three of its eleven passengers including U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13). Unable to land at Kansas City because of fog, the plane had proceeded toward a Department of Commerce emergency landing field at Kirksville, Mo., 128 mi. away. About 16 mi. from Kirksville, with only 27 minutes of fuel left, the pilot came down through the fog, flew low over rolling country apparently seeking Kirksville .When he made a turn too close...
...life of Glenn Luther Martin to his business associates that they made him sign a pledge 13 years ago never to ride in an airplane. Last week Airplane Designer Martin received word that his 78-year-old father lay dying in Santa Ana, Calif. Builder Martin boarded a plane at Baltimore, flew across the continent to his father's deathbed swiftly but too late. Said he: "I felt justified in breaking the contract and company officials agreed...