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Word: planing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the devout Attorney General was charging through the skies again, his G-Man beside him. When their plane halted at El Paso, Frank Murphy told the waiting press he was on the trail of "an enormous swindle." But Frank Murphy did not say what the "big swindle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: St. Francis | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...will open this year on Saturday, June 24, and will continue for eight weeks, it was announced last week. At the suggestion of the Graduate School of Design, a course on Statistics and Resistance of Materials will be given, in addition to the regular program of Engineering Sciences 4; Plane Surveying. Curves, and Earthwork. No student is permitted to take more than one course at the camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering Camp | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...virtually quit flying. From that plant came the first Martin bomber, a huge, two-engined biplane. Built too late to get into the War, the first Martin bomber went to the Air Service. A great cranelike thing that drifted in stodgily to its landings, it was the standard bombardment plane of the service until the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Baltimore. Adding designers, draftsmen, withdrawing more & more from designing to administer the business, Martin turned out better & better models in rapid succession. He swapped little information with other manufacturers, became known as a sombre lone wolf. From the Cleveland plant came the first plane built specifically for mail service, the first metal American monoplane, of which the Navy bought 36, the first bomber with an alloy-steel fuselage, of which the Navy bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Like any other businesslike airline, K. L. M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines) likes to run from city to city by the most direct route. But last week its new special London-Warsaw plane service was routed via Copenhagen, Gdynia and south to the Polish capital, avoided the direct route across Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Detour | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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