Word: seaters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fighting Three," known also to the service as the yellow-tailed "Striking Eagles," is made up of single-seater Boeing fighters flown by 18 officers and conditioned by 65 enlisted men. From President Hoover on Dec. 5. Lieut. Commander Samuel Paul Ginder (squadron commander, July 1, 1920-May 15, 1930) will receive the trophy for his mates. After a year, a replica will be his to keep...
...limousine collided with a small two-seater at the gate of London's Hyde Park. Out of the limousine jumped King Alfonso XIII of Spain, unhurt by flying glass. He shook hands with the young woman driver of the two-seater, handed his card to a police inspector, got back into the limousine, sped on to Bucking ham Palace, arrived punctually for lunch with King George & Queen Mary...
...week, Barney Balaban, Chicago cinemagnate (Balaban & Katz theatres) was enjoined by Knute and Emil Hulquist, operators of the Chicago Theatre (burlesque), from using the title "Chicago Theatre" for his gaudy nine-year-old, $5,000,000 cinemansion. In the course of the proceedings Mr. Balaban referred to the 250-seater burlesque house as a "shooting gallery," where "females of the grosser type prevail." In defense of burlesque, gallantly replied Emil Hulquist: "There is but one difference between the type of musical entertainment known as the 'revue' or 'musical comedy and that type known as 'burlesque...
Manhattan news-vendors hawked profitably last week a new greeting card: a rose-garlanded glider, piloted by a fat cherub with goggles, towed by a two-seater monoplane. In the distance, flying away, was a stork. The greeting: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HAPPY LINDBERGHS. Price...
...monoplane. But the U. S. government has continued satisfied with the proven fighting performance of its Vought Corsairs, Curtiss Hawks and Falcons, Boeing Navy F4-B's and Army P12's, all biplanes. Last week Boeing Airplane Co., supplanting Curtiss as chief purveyor of single-seater fighters to the government, announced its latest experimental handiwork: a high-wing, cantilever, all-metal, parasol type of fighting monoplane. Experts in touch with Air Corps destinies foresaw in this announcement the ascension of monoplanes, the supplanting of biplanes, in the U. S. air forces...