Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three Army flyers who risked their lives pulling two injured companions from a wrecked and burning army plane, the President presented Cheney Air Heroism medals and awards of $200 apiece; to two marine corps colonels the President presented Congressional Medals of Honor for having led their companies into heavy gunfire to win an engagement in the Philippine insurrection. 33 years...
...devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights on the wing of his plane. He made an astonishing flight of 28 mi. offshore to Catalina Island. He took up Mary Pickford for her first flight, turned down cinema contracts...
Glenn Martin's fancy flying was done for the sole purpose of financing further experimentation. By 1912 he had a plane factory running full blast, and a year later received his first Government contract. In 1918 came the first of the famed twin-engine Martin bombers and since then he has built hundreds of Army & Navy planes. The Martin which won the Collier Trophy in 1933 cruises at 200 m.p.h. with two tons of bombs in its belly. Before the House Naval Affairs Committee in Washington last winter Glenn Martin testified that he had done...
...experiment a beam of light from a small are is passed through a slit, through a half-silvered mirror, and onto a rapidly rotating stainless steel mirror. This sends the light down the length of a corridor in the Research Building, through a special longfocus lens, and onto a plane mirror which reflects it back to the rotating mirror and thence to the half-silvered glass. The opacity of this glass diverts part of the light beam into a microscope where the image of the slit may be watched closely. Because of its great speed, the rotating mirror moves...
...built up a quick fortune which he expanded by, acquiring Duesenberg and a few companies manufacturing accessories. Until he introduced the Cord Front-Drive car in 1930, his name was known to a very small portion of the public. It was about then that he bought a plane, learned to fly it, determined to make planes much cheaper than they then were. With the late Edward A. Stinson he began producing trimotored transport planes at such absurdly low prices that other manufacturers, including Henry Ford, found it prudent to retire from the field. It was to create a market...