Word: seaplanesful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*World speed record for seaplanes (440.6 m.p.h.) was made two months ago in Italy by swart, tiny Francesco ("Crazy Boy") Agello (TIME, Nov. 5).
Land-planes have flown faster than 500 m.p.h.. seaplanes better than 400 m.p.h. To make flying speeds of 500 m.p.h. possible as well as safe, Secretary Ickes last week allotted $478,300 of PWA funds to construct a high-speed wind tunnel at the laboratory of the National Advisory...
No one could blame Glen Luther Martin of Baltimore for beaming with pride last week. Fortnight ago the War Department announced that ten Martin bombers would take off from Washington, D. C. the Navy Department announced that twelve Martin patrol seaplanes would also take oil this month for a 7...
In his speech to the nation last week (see above) Premier Doumergue announced: "I returned to office when I was called by President Lebrun and party leaders who said that civil war was about to break out. . . . Civil war risks bringing a yet more horrible thing-foreign invasion." Civil war...
From Paradise Cove, scene of many a moonlight picnic on the Marin County shore of San Francisco Bay, six big navy seaplanes taxied out with a mighty roar one noon last week. With their 30 officers & crew they comprised Patrol Squadron 10-F, bound for Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...