Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards the fumigation of its household as its own job, in which it can invoke the aid of the Treasury," declared Emissary Jackson, "the effort to place tax practice upon a higher plane will be successful. But if the Bar as a whole regards the right to be crooked as a priceless possession to be defended by hostility to all regulations and governance, the inevitable result will be that, as a whole, it will face a vexatious degree of regulation really needful for only a few rascals...
...before him, that the almost constant rains were caused by the incessant explosion of heavy artillery shells. This summer's drought gave James A. Boze of Waxahachie, Tex. an idea. Obtaining damage waivers from the owners of some 27,000 parched acres south of Dallas, he hired a plane, flew over clouds, dropped high-explosive bombs into them. That day it rained in Waxahachie. Farmers thanked Nature, not Boze...
Next day the indefatigable rainmaker went up again, accompanied by Pilot Lou Foote, a newsreel photographer, a Dallas night-club entertainer. A bomb dropped from 15,000 ft. exploded prematurely, set off three other bombs inside the plane. With one side of the cabin blown out and flames eating their way through the cockpit, able Pilot Foote sideslipped coolly into a cotton field, saved himself and passengers. But next day pneumonia, brought on by burns, took James A. Boze...
...Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing gear in a ditch, turned over, broke his arm. In a Brooklyn morgue that day wept Wong...
...Perry has been three times around the world. He has 50 tennis trophies, including spears and shields from Africa. He smokes a pipe, never drinks. He drives a car cautiously, avoids travel by plane. Slightly ashamed of his skill at table tennis, he now plays only onboard ship. He plays tennis eight months every year, does not practice before a match because it does his game no good. His fiancee is British Cinemactress Mary Lawson, a onetime tap dancer, who is 5 ft. tall, wears size 2 shoes, plays no tennis at all. Last week she was at Shepherd...