Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria. Since then Victoria has become the most thickly populated corner (1,818,080) of a Commonwealth that Britain wants to bind to herself by every possible tie of sentiment and advantage. Last week Gloucester finished a fine two-month job of binding, by sending off the first plane on the new Australia-London mail service. Aboard the plane were Gloucester's own Christmas cards to family and friends, due to reach London the day before Christmas...
Died. Lieut. William Cunningham Reeves, 25, younger son of Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet; when the Army plane he was piloting nudged a treetop, nosed down, burst into flames; near Burlingame, Calif...
Spurning lifeboat and life-preservers. Lieutenant Ulm and two companions last week climbed aboard Stella Australis, took off from Oakland on the 2,400-mi. water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy...
...Pilot Post. On his first flight Post got lost, had trouble with his oxygen valve, spent some bad moments in fear he might literally blow up. On the second, his motor quit, forced him to make a dead-stick landing after 150-m.p.h. gales had chipped paint from his plane, torn rivets out of place...
...Sinclair Lewis: "Pinkish, redhead, hair smooth and flattened in front, neglected, dishevelled and bunched in brief strands behind. Irritable brow. Long flat plane from temple to collar. Flesh like canned tomatoes with the seeds in it, changing abruptly to cream-colored forehead. Pale blue clever bulgy eyes, glaring dizzily at something in offing, possibly anthill. Sandy eyelashes, invisible eyebrows, lips gathered on a drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed...