Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greater accuracy in plotting maps from aerial photographs than has ever been achieved before will be the result of developments now taking place at the Institute of Geographical Exploration," said James W. Bagley, lecturer on Aero-photography in an interview yesterday...
Shanghai, Mar. 3--Ts Vung Soong, Harvard class of 1915, who was yesterday commissioned chief of the Chinese air force, replacing his sister, Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, told reporters today that he would try to effect a reorganization of his country's aerial defense...
...work, says he, and would be a great aid to national defense. (His six North-South arteries stop significantly short of the Canadian border.) His is concrete just heavy enough to stand up under mounted 8-inch guns. And his flowered, shrubbed and lighted super-speedways would be effective aerial guides, could quickly be shut off in sections to provide emergency landing fields. But that is not all. The Snyder plan, which would be carried out by the Department of the Interior, calls for a vast airport at each of the 18 superhighway intersections. Nor does Representative Snyder overlook patronage...
...Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo...
...clear, cold outdoor pictures which have since become classic examples of great photography. In 1917 and 1918 "Eduard'' saw much more of France than he had ever seen before. He saw it from above, as chief of the photographic section of the U. S. Air Service. In aerial photography clarity is the first and last requisite. When the War was over, Colonel Edward Steichen burned all his paintings, spent one solid year photographing still life to learn just how much detail he could get under different lights...