Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howard Hughes's plane is owned by his own Hughes Aircraft Co. He will pay the entire cost of the trip, about $5,000, himself. Only connection of this private venture with the New York World's Fair is that he is the Fair's aeronautical adviser...
...small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut, potatoes on Long Island, cotton in Georgia. Big League baseball games were repeatedly postponed, golf tournaments delayed, resort business washed out. A naval bombing plane, rain-blinded, crashed in Connecticut with three fatalities. At Liberty, N. Y., 25,000 tenpins worth $1 each were swept away-along with a shed where they were stored-down the trout-famed Beaverkill. In Delaware, bridges were carried away; the Delaware River rose six feet...
...Flying Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania went up one soupy morning on a solo flight in a Waco cabin plane belonging to the State, could not find a hole to descend through, finally cracked up on the campus of a school for orphan girls. Results: 1) Colonel Camille Vinet, chief of the State's Aeronautics Bureau, grounded Student Earle for two weeks, 2) Citizen Earle promised to pay his State a $2,000 repair bill, 3) a prominent New Deal Governor very nearly made a sudden exit from the political scene...
...seconds later acrobatic Flight Lieutenant Abadia, who once was suspended from the air service for "imprudent flying," decided to finish off with a super-spectacular dive ending in a "half roll" swoop between the two grandstands, barely far enough apart for his plane to have room to pass between. Crash-one wingtip hit the Diplomatic Stand. CRASH -the plane rebounded against the Presidential Stand, burst into flame and sprayed burning gasoline as its propeller slashed human flesh. The whole flaming mass crunched down upon spectators between the stands, slithered 65 feet...
Instantly killed were 34, including Lieutenant Abadia. Many of the 150 injured were taken to hospitals where eight later died. There were no serious injuries among diplomats or dignitaries, although a few had to snuff out drops of burning gasoline. A broken part which came hurtling off the plane bruised the wife of the Japanese Charge d'Affaires...