Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the naval review, he visited Bolling Field with Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, inspected every type of Army plane there stationed and also the latest Naval equipment at nearby Anacostia. From his car the President watched mechanics demonstrate the marvels of folding wings, retractable pontoons...
...flies till he reaches the flat base; there he hesitates a moment wondering whether to take a chance and fly right in. Other people have done it, why shouldn't I, thinks Vag. So he plunges his plane into the darkness, and is suddenly surrounded by hail, sleet, and rain, coming from all directions. In a second the fabric on the wings is torn off. He and his ship hurtle towards the earth...
...able to duplicate such a plan, they should certainly strive in other ways to throw out more lines to the mainland which is the general public. By scattering intellectual seeds abroad, they can make a valuable contribution to the life of the nation. And, to argue on a lower plane, they may also heighten their own towers...
...against French law for either the Pretender or his son to enter France, and the frontiers today are closely watched for unauthorized aircraft, but a private plane encountered no obstacle in bringing the Comte de Paris illegally in broad daylight from Brussels to a country house in Normandy. There discreetly chosen French journalists had been assembled "to meet the Comtesse...
When he first realized the plane was burning, he said later, he found his lips murmuring a prayer he had not repeated for 35 years...