Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five sleek, silver-coated Lockheed Orions were already in their hangars at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. and United Airport, Burbank, Calif, last week, two more on their way from the factory. They are specially built, low-wing monoplanes, windowless, with retractable landing gear, designed to fly 170 m. p. h. with half-ton loads. The schedule westbound calls for take-off at 6 p. m., arrival at 8:45 a. m. Eastbound, take-off 12:45 p.m., arrive...
From ground floor to roof, the long South Wing of the Biological Laboratories building is occupied by the Department of Physiology. The comparatively new field of General Physiology, which has gradually emerged from the union of Botany and Zoology, has here the apparatus and the space it needs for unhampered development...
...Names like Silas Christofferson, Lincoln Beachey, Art Smith, Katherine Stinson appeared on his flamboyant handbills. In early days he netted perhaps $2,000 merely for a 10-minute flight above the fair grounds, and not always did his patched-up planes stay up ten minutes. Later it was stunting, wing-walking, plane-to-plane jumps, standing on looping planes, that brought in gate receipts...
...head of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. hangs the threat that Spain's Cortes (parliament) will declare the franchise for its big subsidiary. Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana, null & void. The threat has hung over I. T. & T.'s head for eleven months, and last week Left-wing Deputies in the Cortes were shouting loudly for a vote on the bill, a hefty item in the pre-Revolution program against His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII. The shouting Deputies claim the franchise was illegal, that it was obtained only after a thumping bribe was slipped to "a high personage." Telefonica...
...same time removing the Ford appendix. Careful blood counts the day prior had indicated a probable infection. A relatively new anesthetic, Avertin, was used; it is easy on the heart; the operation lasted some 45 min. All other patients were moved from the third floor of the wing where Mr. Ford lay. The fact behind a fond Ford boast, "I have never been sick a day in my life," was counted on to speed his recovery. Henry Ford's last ailment: a sprained back in 1927, suffered when the Ford car he was driving through Dearborn was forced...