Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poor Man's Plane...
...story, "Poor Man's Plane" in TIME, Sept. 10, would surely indicate that Director Eugene L. Vidal of the Department of Commerce in calling for bids on 25 new planes for his inspectors, had hoped to pull out of the hat a plane for the public to sell for $700, and had failed. In order to understand . . . the entire project, it is necessary to consider the following facts...
...Last November Director Vidal canvassed all civilian pilots, mechanics and student pilots (about 35,000) on their attitude toward a small plane if it could be volume-produced and sold for about $700. The response was enthusiastically in favor...
Mass production of a small, safe, cheap (about $700) plane has long been an obsession with Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce of the Department of Commerce. Year ago he urged the idea upon manufacturers, found them cold. Last May he took matters into his own hands, asked for bids on 25 small, cheap, safe airplanes for use by the Government's aeronautical inspectors. Last week when the bids were opened in Washington, only one of the 16 submitted approached $700. Safety Air Transportation of Indianapolis offered to build a metal stub-winged plane...
...theory that a barbecue is adequate consolation for a shattered marriage indicates the intellectual plane of Chained. This does not prevent it from being an entertaining specimen of baloney cinema, replete with sex and high life. In it, Clark Gable wears a little mustache and Joan Crawford gives all she has to her performance as a lady. Most vulgar shot: Mike, Diane and their friend Johnnie (Stuart Erwin) unbuttoning their breeches after a large meal...