Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This does not mean that the securities of any manufacturer of military planes is a good buy, for military plane construction necessitates huge development expenses which may go for nothing if a competitor gets the contract...
...during an air raid and announced that I was at St. Marie's hospital. I had visited there to contact and help to evacuate two Catholic sisters. They left here on the President Hoover. I took them to the Customs Jetty. Their departure was heralded by a Chinese plane and Japanese antiaircraft fire. Virginia today received a phone call from one of the remaining American sisters who stated that the evacuees had left for the States from Manila on the President Hoover which you know was bombed. One of the sisters died in San Francisco the day after landing...
...queer feeling we had when Virginia and I saw a Japanese plane burst in the air and disappear in a huge cloud of black smoke which in dissolving showed us tiny silver like pieces of the fuselage as they fluttered to earth...
...What a queer feeling when from the windows of your apartment you hear the roar of a Chinese plane-hear the Japanese anti-air craft guns- see the red and white tracer bullets some of which seem to be coming in your direction-to see the searchlight of the Japanese ships trying to pick up the plane and later actually seeing the Chinese plane not over 250 yd. from your apartment...
...Benito Mussolini prepared to christen a private plane at Rome's Lictor airport, his portly, placid wife Rachele Mussolini forbade him to break the champagne bottle on the propeller. Meekly II Duce touched bottle to craft, gave the champagne to attendants, who drank...