Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris arrived last week seven bodies that had lain for days in the wreckage of a French plane in the Great Congo Forest, had been mauled by leopards, lions, jackals and wolves, had been punctured by the proboscises of poisonous flies and mosquitoes, had been stripped of valuables by Banda Negroes and finally had been found by a Belgian search pilot, shipped down the Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa...
...zeal in reminding Frenchmen of the glorious hazards of life in the French colonies, the Paris Illustration hastened to print photographs of the jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...
...fabulous loot of his mighty War Lord sire, the late, great Chang Tso-lin, drinker of hot tigers' blood and toyer with hotter women. Last week the Young Marshal was still trying to make good, fooling around the Communist war zone in his shiny new Boeing plane...
...pilot to fly him to Yunnanfu. Half an hour later he was soaring over Chinese Communist troops, too high and too swift to be pinged by their poor marksmanship. Suddenly the Boeing began to sputter and Chang's heart was in his mouth. If his plane were forced down and they caught him, the Young Marshal could count on being tortured carefully to death. As his U. S. pilot put his ship prayerfully into a long glide, bullets came pinging close, but on she skimmed. Abruptly she resumed her sweet thunder, banked, climbed, soared into the zenith...
...gathered speed under the surge of its four Hornet motors. After a half-minute run, the 21-ton Pan American Clipper lifted easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this crew for this flight...