Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Eduardo Justo, 28, son of Argentine President Agustin P. Justo; in an Argentine army plane crackup; near the flooded Itacumbu River in northwestern Uruguay. Eduardo Justo's deathmates: one colonel, three lieutenant colonels, one major, one lieutenant, one radio operator...
...thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck was a fountain of flame which blackened the snow for 100 ft., prevented the horrified witnesses from trying to extricate the ten men aboard. When the flames subsided all ten were dead...
...from Bozeman on skis to bring in the bodies and as investigators from Northwest Air's headquarters and from Washington hustled unhappily toward the wreck, no one had any idea what could have caused it. The weather on the spot was blowy but no tempest. The plane had the best of equipment, even a unique loop antenna made static-proof by enclosure in the ship's transparent plexiglass nose. Lockheed 143's can maintain their height on one engine and it seemed incredible that both could have cut out simultaneously. Said Farmer Homer White, first witness...
...recent death of Edwin C. Musick, pilot of the airplane that fell into the Pacific near Pago Pago, is a blow to aviation's progress, as American flying has lost one of its oldest and ablest servants, Musick made his first flight in 1913 in a homemade plane, and during the World War he enlisted in the aviation section of the signal corps, and subsequently served as an instructor in the army. He was one of the three Americans who have received the Harmony trophy; Charles Lindbergh and Wiley Post being the other...
During the War, this pleasant musical association was interrupted, but with the signing of the armistice, Pattison and Maier resumed their plane association, and continued to give their joint recitals for the next 12 years. Meanwhile, Maier began indulging in his pet ambition to give concerts for children. Out of this ambition grew the novel "musical journeys", which consisted of interesting sessions with the composers and music of great countries. These musical lectures, designed particularly for juvenile entertainment, kept Maier busy both in the delivery of them, and in gleaning new material for them. With the advent of Government sponsored...