Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither passenger had lost his air-mindedness. Mr. King rode Pennsylvania Airline's blind landing plane from Washington to Pittsburgh two days later. Mr. Bane took a plane home from Newark. Nevertheless, Passenger Bane recalled his maiden flight as "a night of hell. . . . Mr. King and I ... thought as long as we were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going...
Meantime, Eastern's Manager Eddie Rickenbacker plus a dozen other expert navigators sweated over charts and signals from Pilot Jones in a hopeless effort to locate the wandering plane. At midnight, radio stations, led by WOR, began asking listeners to "step outside and see if you can hear an airplane anywhere over your home." Promptly from five States came 227 calls reporting the plane. Once the lost ship was said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from...
...introduced stewardesses to the flying public-decided to try to do some-thing about wives' fear. A survey revealed that "36% of wives do not want their husbands to fly, primarily because they themselves have never flown; many have never visited an airport; most have never seen a plane newer than 1929's trimotored Ford." California papers carried United's "very special invitation to wives whose husbands like to fly-you are invited to accompany your husband on his next flight between San Francisco and Los Angeles as a guest of United Air Lines."* Last week...
There is a promise of topical trippery when Don Ameche and Cesar Romero set off across the Atlantic in a plane loaded with a buoying cargo of ping-pong balls (a device actually adopted by Crooner Harry Richman & Aeronaut Dick Merrill; TIME, Sept. 14, 1936, et seq.). And there is a promise of native warmth when the plane plops down in the midst of peasant festivities in a Norse village. But neither promise is kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture...
Five years ago printers on Seattle's three big daily newspapers suddenly went on strike, then found the management had anticipated them. The publishers had recruited strikebreakers by auto, train and plane, quartered them elegantly in downtown hotels including Seattle's swank Olympic Hotel. The three papers did not shut down...