Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody knew quite so well as Mr. Eden that the international peace effort, begun when he and British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon called on Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 1), was cracking up last week. The Lord Privy Seal's head swam as his plane took off for London. On approaching Cologne he had to be set down, tottered to a hotel where for two hours he lay on his back, knowing only that he "felt queer...
...reservations desk in a Chicago hotel bustled a woman and two men. From the clerk they reserved three seats on the Transcontinental & Western Air plane for New York, bustled away again. Hour later they were back to ask: "Is that the 'Lindbergh Line'?" Told that it was, they indignantly canceled their reservations. Asked TWA's Chicago manager: "Who were they?" Replied the hotel clerk: "Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann and two lawyers...
What he probably meant was "drift," by which is meant the gyroscopic precessive motion of the projectile to the right of the plane of the initial trajectory. This drift to the right increases with the range, and obeys definite scientific laws...
...acres) and crowded to permit the landing of other aircraft. Last week a truck brought into his little realm its first airplane. The Holy Father promptly walked out to peer at it through his thick spectacles, observe on its side the name of his predecessor: SANCTUS PETRUS. The plane, as Pius XI was gratefully aware, was the gift of a recently-formed German organization, the Missions Verkehrs Arbeit Gemeinschaft ("Mission Traffic Aid Society"). Founded by a onetime army aviator named Rev. Paul Schulte who now belongs to the Oblate Order of Mary Immaculate, the Society has provided seven planes, eight...
...those on the blue earth last week could see of Pilot Collins was a whizzing speck, shooting headlong down out of the sky. The speck got bigger. Suddenly a wing fluttered loose from his plane and drifted away. Then the whole ship seemed to break up in midair. The motor tore out, plunged into the middle of a street. The wing landed in a field half a mile away. Spinning wildly, the fuselage fell among the tombstones of Pinelawn Cemetery...