Word: tailspinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tailspin (Twentieth Century-Fox). In its protracted series of aviation pictures, the cinema has shown men fliers at home and abroad, over sea and land, dead and alive. It has rarely, however, shown women fliers. Tailspin rectifies this neglect with a band of young women aviators (Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly) engaged in transcontinental races, parachute jumps, spectacular crashes and the amatory adventures which, in the cinema, naturally accompany all such hazardous undertakings...
...throat competitive practices prevalent in the industry are leading the nation away from the objectives of recovery and into a devastating economic tailspin...
...Boeing tailspin was not yet over. Following the 247-D came the slick Douglas DC-1, 2 and 3 which immediately became the darlings of most major U. S. airlines. Even United "went Douglas" eventually. But undaunted Claire Egtvedt kept plugging at the military contracts Boeing and its Kansas subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., have never lacked. An engineer pure and simple, President Egtvedt kept Boeing plants small, while others, like Douglas, were overexpanding. He devoted all Boeing's energies to creating a magnificent new bomber - the great 299, now called YB-17. This four-motored monoplane is the most...
...Amos, the spokesman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported : "He was probably the drunkest duck I ever saw. He would stand up on the bar and quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck for a movie career. He's as smart as they come, but a little bit shy. So I take him along with me to let him mix and get used to folks...
...diameter, has an observation platform surrounding it, a propeller to furnish a 50-m.p.h. blast of air. Some 300 pairs of eyes, including Col. Lindbergh's, fairly popped as they watched a 3-1 scale model demonstrate how an airplane behaves in the dreaded tailspin...