Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year a plump-faced Briton flew from London to India. He was Maurice Wilson, 37, son of a Yorkshire woolen manufacturer, Wartime infantry captain, holder of the Military Cross. He wanted to land his plane on East Rongbuk glacier (see map try to reach Everest's top from there. The Indian Government refused to let him fly over Nepal, forbade him to make any attempt on the mountain at all, kept him under surveillance. Maurice Wilson held his peace, undertook a severe training regime. He believed that previous Everest expeditions had been overmanned, that the hardiest climbers...
...weather again got into the motor of his Army airplane. Against his will he spent two sweltering nights in Omaha, at last chartered a special plane to take him to Portland, Ore. to make a similar speech. Two more speeches were in his brief case, one for Los Angeles, Calif., the other for Chicago. Between them lay an unwritten and far more precious plan?two weeks of rest somewhere in the mountains...
Thus he set out on his vacation. It was marred by airplane trouble. His plane came down once at Rantoul, Ill., another landed him at Waterloo, Iowa. There, in the hippodrome of the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress, 4,500 farmers and farm women gave him a hand as his white shoes waded through the inch-thick dust on the dirt floor to put him before the microphone. Save for paying his compliments to Germany (see p. 9), he delivered a mild defense of NRA: "When anybody tells you that NRA and the Blue Eagle have not done for the farmer...
Commander Hunsaker, a trained technical observer, is already in Europe. Nevertheless he was to arrive home this week and with Members Warner, Berres & Lane, board a Department of Commerce plane Aug. 3 for a month's tour of the U. S. to visit Army & Navy bases, inspect commercial airports and aircraft factories and look over airmail, passenger & express route...
Meanwhile on the West Coast berth-plane service was inaugurated three months ago by American Airlines between Los Angeles and Dallas, Tex. Always more progressive in accepting what seems new, the West furnished American Airlines' sleepers with many a capacity load. Encouraged by its success, American Airlines last week inaugurated sleeper service on its six-hour New York-Chicago night run. using 160 m.p.h. Curtiss Condors with twelve berths, upper & lower. The same length as Pullman berths but nine inches narrower, the aerial berths are convertible by day into roomy club chairs...