Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last goes out to die heroically in a fog over the Alleghenies. All this is accompanied by a buzz of ribaldry and shop talk (a program glossary explains that "cotton," "dirt," "gloom," "goo" and "bird-walking weather" all mean fog) from an assorted crew of mechanics, Government inspectors, plane manufacturers, insurance adjusters and fliers presided over by saturnine Osgood Perkins as the hard-bitten division superintendent...
Leaving her husband in bed from heart strain (TIME, April 15), Mrs. Anthony Eden, wife of Britain's Lord Privy Seal, flew up from Leeds with a party of local bigwigs to open an airline to Heston. Flustered by such a great and pretty passenger, the plane's pilot landed too fast at Heston Airdrome, skidded on through a fence, deposited the ceremonial party in a pasture...
...Puerto Carreno, Colombia, the chief of a hostile Indian tribe sent his braves prowling under the fuselage of a giant trimotored Ford transport plane to steal the "big bird's eggs," so that the chief could hatch planes of his own to fight the white...
Metz, France, April 19--French authorities tonight investigated eye-witness reports that a German plane flew over France's eastern frontier fortifications in the region of Thionville, at low altitude...
...Complicated principally by the necessity for outwitting her father's star salesman (William Gargan) while she falls in love with him, Angela Twitchell's career reaches its peak when, at a Chicago drug convention, she sees to it that her rival and fiance arrives late in a plane whose pilot she has hired to advertise cocktail tooth paste in skywriting...