Word: runway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairly creaking under a heavy load of fuel, a four-year-old Fairchild monoplane named Miss U. S. S. Louisville lurched clumsily down the concrete runway of New York's Floyd Bennett Field, wobbled from side to side, finally skidded into the soft grass and wrecked its landing gear. Out of the cabin crawled two rueful young men with 80? in their pockets and a strange story to tell. They had just attempted a take-off "to Portugal." Both men-Frank Gushing and Andrew Soos Jr.-were sailors absent without leave from the U. S. S. Louisville which fortnight...
...Manhattan trackmeet, Barney Berlinger once took off so heavily for a pole-vault that he crashed through the end-board of the runway. Pole-vaulting is not his specialty any more than weight-throwing, wrestling, boxing, baseball. Considered one of the best all-around track athletes in the U. S., he won the decathlon for the third time in a row at the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival last spring, took more points than any other contestant at the Intercollegiate Indoor Track Championships. Later, he was the leading member of a U. S. track team which toured South Africa. Voters...
...Manhattan engagement. Over the airport Lieut. Quesada pushed the pumphandle that should lower the retractable landing gear, found to his horror that it would not budge; the wheels remained uselessly folded into the thick low wing. Lieut. Quesada picked up the speaking-tube. Try a landing on the hard runway? Climb higher and bail out? Secretary Davison looked overside, then answered: "Neither. . . . Try Mitchel. It's softer there." At Mitchel Field a few miles away Lieut. Quesada made a "fishtail" landing at 70 m.p.h. without hurting his chief or himself...
...business and prospered mightily. They bought theatres, built theatres (with the assistance of innumerable unofficial partners). They made New York's most imposing music hall out of an old riding ring on Broadway and renamed it the Winter Garden. In the Winter Garden, which featured an illuminated runway, Al Jolson, Willie & Eugene Howard, Marilyn Miller made their first successes...
...Rankin was making a new record of 131 consecutive outside loops high above him, Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams went through his upside-down falling-leaf stunt one day last week at the Southern Air Pageant at Charlotte, N. C. Suddenly Lieut. Williams' motor quit. Unable to reach the runway without endangering the crowd, he crashed his plane into an embankment, was not badly hurt. Lieut. Williams' reason for the accident: water in the gasoline...