Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou were murdered at Marseille in 1934 by a professional assassin whose Italian connections were carefully hushed. Two years ago British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen was machine-gunned and dangerously wounded by a Japanese plane. During the Spanish Civil War "pirate" submarines torpedoed British and French merchantmen. If an incident were needed to start a war, the world has recently had plenty of them...
Last week a spectacular and unprecedented accident happened to the University of California's famed Lick Observatory, first of the big mountain-top star-stations, perched on triple-peaked, 4,209-ft. Mt. Hamilton. An army attack plane, flying on instruments through fog, hit the main observatory building like a rifle bullet aimed at a bull...
...plane crashed through two 18-inch brick walls, littered the observatory's sleek marble floor with broken bricks, mortar, gasoline, wreckage. Both aviators were killed. The telescope (a 36-inch refractor) was not damaged and no astronomers were hurt. But two offices containing precious photographs were wrecked...
...plant outside Baltimore had just delivered 117 B10 bombers to The Netherlands, was working on a ten-million dollar order for new gull-winged flying boats for the Navy, 215 of the 167 bombers for France. Altogether his backlog of orders came to $39,500,000 worth of planes. With the new contract, however, the biggest plane manufacturing backlog, $48,000,000, glows in Rival Douglas' fireplace...
...early passengers was Minta Martin, whom he took ,up precariously perched on the leading edge of the lower wing. Another was Cinemactress Mary Pickford, for whom he played the villain in The Girl of Yesterday, renting himself and his plane for $700 a day. Still another was Musicomedienne Valeska Suratt, who planted three kisses on his cheek after he landed her in front of a crowd in Los Angeles. Blushing Martin ran away, later told newsmen soberly "her air conduct was good...