Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army, the Navy and experimenters for air transport lines have made thousands of blind landings. But last week Pennsylvania-Central Airlines-which has operated over the Allegheny Mountains between Washington and Cleveland for eight years without a fatality-set a ship full of passengers down on Pittsburgh's all-paved airport solely by instruments-and thus claimed to have made the first commercial blind landing. There are Army, Navy and airline blind landing systems. The one used in this case is called "Air-Track," a radio-guided approach system designed to standardize and safeguard all landings, but still awaiting...
...Pilot Jones in a hopeless effort to locate the wandering plane. At midnight, radio stations, led by WOR, began asking listeners to "step outside and see if you can hear an airplane anywhere over your home." Promptly from five States came 227 calls reporting the plane. Once the lost ship was said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from its flash as the one at New Britain, Conn., 82 miles north of Newark, directed Jones to the nearby...
...curved path of constant intensity in a field of radio waves. On the pilot's dashboard is a "cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down the beams. As he passes the boundary of the airport at a known altitude the marker beacon signals his position. Whatever the weather, the pilot, eyes only on his instruments, theoretically lands his ship surely and safely on the runway...
...There she was frozen in, far south of the Pole, even south of waters regularly visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle shots, and at times the sides seemed to pant under the strain. The ice itself seemed alive. Once a section near the Jeannette churned as if in a millrace, and sometimes ice fragments as large as houses piled up, threatening to crash down...
...behind a waiter's poker face? Many a nervous, exasperated or curious diner has often wondered. Last week a waiter took off his uniform and tried to tell. What he had to say was disappointing. Thirty-year-old Dave Marlowe (real name: Arthur Timmens) has been a ship's steward on British and U. S. liners, a waiter in New York speakeasies and night clubs, has worked in swanky London hotels, in rowdy pubs. But apparently he paid as little attention to the guests as they paid to him. As a ship's steward his main concern...