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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The wedding of Margaret Annis ("Peggy") Best, 24, daughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Matthew Robert Best who commands the British Navy's America & West Indies Station, was postponed a month when she and Bridesmaid-to-be Ruth Dora Backhouse, daughter of Admiral Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse who commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

The fact that Groucho Marx receives screen credit as co-author with Norman Krasna of The King and the Chorus Girl, may to some extent account for the picture's utterly amoral and pleasantly lucid lunacy. So may the fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

In the nine years from Jan. 1, 1928 to Jan 1 1937 there were 55 wrecks of scheduled U. S. passenger airliners bringing death to 181 passengers, or one tor every 2,000,000 miles of flight. Best year was 1933, when airlines flew 21,700,000 passenger-miles per...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: For Safety | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Just before leaving Oakland she wrote "while the chief reason for the flight is my personal desire, . . . I want it to be a throroughgoing check of modern equipment". A far better way of checking the equipment is the quiet activity of Pan American Airways and the large domestic airlines, whose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALIEN CORN | 3/19/1937 | See Source »

United did not announce its discovery at once, being bound as are all airlines by agreement with their insurance companies not to disclose accident causes until the Bureau of Air Commerce makes its official statement. This is to avoid premature damage suits. To avoid similar tragedies, United and other users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Well of Tragedy | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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