Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are equipped with luxurious trappings, hot and cold running water, sleeping compartments, radio sets, spacious windows. The 90-foot wing spread will lift, beside fuel and passengers, 1,000 pounds of baggage. The three Wright Cyclone motors will propel this load at an average 130 m. p. h. for four and one-half hours, could if necessary attain 155 m. p. h., climb 16,100 feet. Edgar M. Gott, president of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., has for the last two months kept the construction of these monsters a secret...
...west wing of the main floor a reading room containing magazines and newspapers from the major cities of the United States may be had. Upstairs "the finest gentleman's library in Cambridge" will be found. The hours are from 10 in the morning until 11 in the evening. Smoking is permitted. The library contains the literary masterpieces of the English language and most of the fine works of the French. New books are purchased out of a large special fund, and for the benefit of members, suggestions as to what books shall be purchased are welcomed and, wherever possible, followed...
...Alfred Mond, the great chemical tycoon, was created Baron Melchett not long after he instituted the so-called Mond Conferences (TIME, Jan. 23), facilitating direct group bargaining between Employer and Employed, without meddlesome intervention from the Government. The left wing of British Labor considers that unions now attempting to cooperate with employers through Mond Conferences are obtaining little except efficient and scientific demonstrations that higher wages or shorter hours are quite unfeasable...
Good Boy. In the effort to bring novelty to the musical show, Arthur Hammerstein sliced up his stage in the most extraordinary manner, running treadmills from wing to wing so that sets could be switched without new backdrops, and so that his actors, trotting briskly along to keep pace with the changing scenery, had a little bit the look of squirrels in a cage or the race horses in the last act of The Girl from Kentucky...
Near Cleveland, two men were flying in a borrowed plane. A wing dropped off. Both men died in the crash...