Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For United the deal looked wise. It lines up one of the best planes in the world with other United subsidiaries-Boeing, Vought, Hamilton Metalplane, Pratt & Whitney motors, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, Stout Airlines.* Whether Curtiss Flying Service, a subsidiary of United's competitor Curtiss-Wright Corp...
The London show is remarkable for its great number of light planes. The transport and military planes there seem entered only as samples of what is being accomplished in aviation. The small planes are dressed up to stimulate sales. Many are being bought at sight. The Exhibition is a sales...
Endurance Attempts. Of a flock of aspirants towards new refueling endurance records, one at Houston, Texas, another at Shreveport, La., each managed to keep aloft more than 100 hours last week. A third, a Curtiss-Robertsoh at St. Louis, had been up more than 200 hours, flew on into this...
Super Super-Whale. An early morning sun glittered on Lake Constance, Switzerland. Hundreds of people along the shore at Altenrheim eyed a fabulous structure at the water's edge-a yacht-like thing beneath a single wing 157 ft. wide. Above the wings were six turrets supporting six pairs...
When Lord Kylsant had fully set forth his position, the almost immediate result was to send Royal Mail shares bounding up almost to where they had been before the St. Davids pamphlet appeared. Victory seemed to perch on Tycoon Kylsant's standard, but it was not complete until the...