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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If a man were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 20th year; might be killed in the 106th. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (sightseeing, joyhopping with friends, et al...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 8.9% Safer | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

All civil aircraft flew 78,940,161 mi. in the six months, a gain of 25,000,000 mi. over the same period in 1928. There were 924 accidents, one for every 85,433 mi. In 1928 there was an accident every 78,308 mi. Scheduled transport planes suffered 15...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 8.9% Safer | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

With a flourish the Chambrun Galleries invited the New York art world last week to a show proudly titled "Les Trente, a representative showing of the work of 30 modern French painters." The modern French painters bore such disturbingly un-French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Les Trente | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Alexander Pope was born in London, 1688, of fairly well-to-do elderly parents. A delicate child, he was set upon by a cow when he was three; this accident, says Biographer Sitwell, may have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Popery | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Plymouth "Little Accident". Well on the way to this year's endurance record.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 4/2/1930 | See Source »

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