Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Airdrome, 32 other shockworkers were waiting their turn to go up. Looking up, they saw the pilot of the tiny training plane stunting, in violation of orders. They saw him come out of a loop, crash head on into Maxim Gorki. With the little plane wedged in its wing between two motors, Maxim Gorki began falling. The pilots cut the switches, regained control, began gliding towards the airport...
Hero of U. S. air transport from infancy to maturity was the trimotored Ford. Today fast low-wing Boeings, Douglases and Lockheeds have displaced the "Tin Goose" on most U. S. airlines, and many of the 200-odd Ford tri-motors have gone to South America. Of all the "Tin Geese," none was more familiar to U. S. citizens than the one which for five years has been displayed in the concourse of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...
...shadowy little semicircular chamber of the U. S. Supreme Court last week, NIRA at last went to its great trial. For Donald Randall Richberg, it was, indeed, a momentous occasion. As a special assistant to the Attorney General, he appeared in wing collar and cutaway to lead the Federal defending forces against Joseph, Alexander, Martin and Aaron Schechter...
What Justice McReynolds, leader of the four-man conservative wing, wanted to know about was by what empiricism had the New Deal arrived at "fair trade" and labor "standards." Solicitor General Stanley Reed, making his maiden appearance as such before the Court, explained: "The only standard is what industry considers unfair, plus the judgment of the President as to whether they are fair trade provisions." Next day Counsel Richberg took over the ordeal, added that fair trade standards were established in accordance with "the common law" and with those standards which the industries "recognized before codes were adopted...
...together, went skeptically down from Bowdoin College, beheld with his own marveling eyes 25 great scavengers grouped at their horrid feast. Reporting to the National Association of Audubon Societies last week that migrating as well as Maine eagles composed the group, Ornithologist Gross said: "The loud screams and powerful wing beats of these giant birds were an experience never to be forgotten...