Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blind, the central figure in the most famed of France's causes célebrès was passing his 75th birthday. For the running of the Langollen National Steeplechase on his Upperville, Va. estate, young Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney flew down from Manhattan in his new plane. Few feet above the landing field the motor stalled. The plane struck a ditch, nosed over, bumped owner and pilot into unconsciousness. With a black eye and six strips of plaster on his face, Sportsman Whitney went out next day to announce the races. In Washington Princess Julia Dent Grant...
...once from Kansas City. Bridges and highway junctions were barricaded and guarded. State patrolmen scooted up & down all main roads. A National Guard plane, fitted with a two-way radio and a machine gun, was sent from St. Louis. Yet through this massed force of the Law, Floyd and his two companions filtered northward to Minnesota, only to cut back into Iowa, and down to Missouri. Near Mexico, Mo., a salesman reported that he had been forced at gun's point to push a stalled car in which he was sure sat Floyd. A few miles south 25 peace...
...Social Frontier," he explains, "will advocate the raising of American life from the level of the profit system, individualism and vested class interests to the plane of social motivation, collectivism and classlessness...
...Massachusetts' Congressman George Hoiden Tinkham flew into Moscow to check up on industrial conditions. So scraggly had grown his once long and silken beard that ignorant visitors to Russia thought him a typical Communist. His curiosity about business satisfied, Boston's champion of Red-bloodedness and Reaction boarded another plane to fly on to Siberia. No sooner had it got fairly into the air than the motor stalled and down it came a thwacking bump. Out crawled Congressman Tinkham. Resolved to trust his life to no more Soviet airmen, he gave up his Siberian trip, took the next plane...
...British airliner with 13 aboard fell into the English Channel. Seven were drowned. Last year an Imperial Airways plane exploded near the Belgian coast, killed 15. Last May a French airliner fell into the Channel, killing six. Last week a London-Paris airliner exploded over the Channel, plunged seven persons to their deaths. Few days later old Louis Bleriot, first man to fly the Channel, arrived in the U. S. to tell newshawks that airplanes are still far from safe...