Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dire need of new equipment, knew of none available that was satisfactory. Into this breach jumped young Donald Wills Douglas with a set of radical aeronautical ideas which he persuaded Transcontinental & Western Air to back. Out of that collaboration rose the DC-1, a 9-ton, twin-motored, low-wing monoplane which revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously, the little Douglas factory at Santa Monica, Calif., grew into the world...
Sirs: As Moslems turn to Mecca, as Jews turn to Zion, so all U. S. skiers turn to Red Wing. Your ski article [TIME, Jan. 13] was much like a production of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Red Wing has the oldest ski club in the V. S., the oldest skier in the U. S., the best natural ski slide in America, several former national champions and thousands of loyal Norse citizens who would rather ski than eat lutefisk. J. R. P. KERNAN
...occasion was the dedication of a $3,500,000 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, a new granite wing to the American Museum of Natural History opposite Manhattan's Central Park. Erected to commemorate Roosevelt the explorer and Roosevelt the naturalist, the man who rode the plains of the West, penetrated the River of Doubt, hunted through the African jungle, the new and still empty museum heard more at its dedication of Roosevelt the statesman. Franklin Roosevelt filled his address with T. R. quotations, most of which needed little stretching to apply to the New Deal. In his first message to Congress...
...which looked as if a giant scythe had slashed diagonally down through the trees. At one end were a few lopped branches, at the other the crunched remnant of The Southerner's cabin. In between was a confetti of duralumin, mail, cloth, hunks of flesh. Part of a wing was wrapped around a tree 40 ft. off the ground. Blood stains began high on tree trunks, gradually descended until they smeared the stumps. Everywhere was the reek of gasoline...
...this was caused by the fact that the skis would dig themselves farther and farther into the ground when the plane was in horizontal position, as on the take-off. Soon it was found that a cord attached to the wing struts raising the front of the ski removed the danger of burying. A stop cable also was fastened on to the rear of the ski leading to the main plane bracing. These two improvements kept the ski in correct position for maneuvering on the ground or for the take...