Word: airport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congressman LaGuardia differentiated between the proposed air terminal where planes would only land and leave with passengers and mail, and an airport where planes would be housed. New York has many an airport on its fringe, no air terminal in its centre...
...Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an old Buhl air sedan called the Angeleno, and soared, soared, soared over Southern California. When they had been up 175 hours, one hour longer than the last World's record (TIME, July 15), a great crowd gathered at the Culver City airport set up such a hullabaloo that "talkie" directors on nearby lots had to stop work. The soarers sent down messages announcing that they were "tough hombres," would stay up 300 hours...
Congratulations from their backers, who included air-conscious William Gibbs Mc-Adoo, Wilsonian Secretary of the Treasury, owner of the airport and the Angeleno...
...each from a realty firm developing a tract near the airport...
Justly proud of its distribution system is the Fleischmann company. "The Yeast Must Go Through" is the watchword in every Fleischmann office. During the New England floods of November 1927, Fleischmann chartered all the airplanes at the Boston Airport, even newsmen and news services could get planes only through the Fleischmann Traffic Department. First arrivals from afar in the flooded districts were airmen carrying Fleischmann yeast. Nor is Fleischmann service limited only to yeast deliveries. When a Fleischmann baker died suddenly, leaving a distracted widow with several small children, one Fleischmann man took charge of the funeral, another Fleischmann...