Word: takeoff
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Giving Caesar the benefit of an elevated takeoff, the experimenters first launched him with lead weights totaling two pounds attached to his feet. His flight was "normal, effortless, playful." When the weights were increased to four pounds his flights were shorter, obviously strained, and there were no dips, glides, circles. Eight pounds Caesar could not handle at all. Though he "beat the air wildly" he flew only 30 or 40 ft. before flumping to earth...
Planist Freddy Slack, besides doing arrangements and fumadiddling around with various of the boogie-woogie passages, is playing more plane than I have never heard him to before, and with the really terrific clarinet and trumpet takeoff men in the band, sole ideas are pretty well taken care...
Cinemactress Lupe Velez, doing a vaudeville turn in Manhattan, wowed backstagers with an Adolf Hitler takeoff. "That Heetler ees my best take-off," she conceded modestly. "For a few friends I take off that Heetler, yes, but for the public, no! An artist has no business mixing up with politeecs...
Last March 26 a Braniff Airways Chicago-Dallas airliner cracked up near Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff, killing seven passengers and the stewardess. Since then no U. S. airline has suffered a passenger fatality. With five weeks to go for the first year of perfect operations, the National Safety Council made its fourth annual air-safety awards last week in Manhattan...
With the river finally dammed, the water rose rapidly and Jan. 13 was set for the takeoff. Suddenly the dam started giving way. Britons and blacks pitched in together, toiled side by side all night, finally stopped the leaks. Meanwhile the water level had sunk, the Corsair was sitting upstream, on her bottom. Tearing his hair was Imperial Airways Ace Captain Kelly Rogers, first pilot to land in New York harbor at night, who inaugurated the British north Atlantic mail service. Said he afterward: "To lift the Corsair from the water we had to sink huge petrol tanks under...