Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact is, Syracuse Journal published exclusively a half page picture aerial view of wrecked airplane, also a half page picture of rescue party going up the mountain, the day before the wirephoto started. . . . Journal flew a plane over this area, took photographs and hurried back to the office. The first wire picture was 24 hours late in this city...
Said Mrs. Doolittle: ''The most unpleasant flight I ever had." Ace Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker is vice president of TWA and general manager of Eastern Air Lines. As such, he usually goes along on record-breaking inter-city runs by the companies' planes to help make publicity. Last week he started out on what was to be a dawn-to-dusk round-trip flight from New Orleans to New York, inaugurating Eastern Air Lines' 9-hour service between the two cities. The Rickenbacker plane zipped from New Orleans to New York...
...passenger who got Eastern Air Lines the most publicity, however, was a starry-eyed New Orleans stenographer named Marie Louise Reynolds. Miss Reynolds, who studies journalism at night at Loyola University, was described by Col. Rickenbacker as a stowaway. His story: Stowaway Reynolds, 17, boarded the plane to interview Col. Rickenbacker for her college paper. She forgot to get off, was discovered after the takeoff. Reproached, she wept. Col. Rickenbacker succeeded in comforting...
Last week American Airlines, opening its new 16-hour southern transcontinental route with Douglases by day, Condor sleeper-planes by night, announced that the first westbound ship would be christened The Southerner by Miss Anne Laxton of Knoxville, "a descendant of the late General Stonewall Jackson." In addition, Cinemactress Carole Lombard was to be on hand as a passenger. But Miss Lombard took a TWA plane instead, as did La Motte Cohu, onetime president of American Airways. Gary Cooper also failed to appear. Among those who did appear were Wallace Beery, Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt and Texas Publisher Amon...
...solved with only one photograph, which can be taken in two or three hours and interpreted in a few minutes. The new method has its greatest usefulness in the study of materials which are opaque to X-rays, as are most metallic crystals. In most of these crystals the plane surfaces of the atoms lying in regular pattern diffract the X-rays within a relatively thin surface layer of the crystal. The method invented by Mr. Greninger is a variation of the method devised by Max Laue, 20 years...