Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attire to an important dinner engagement in New York, had urged the pilot to go through. In the course of his visit here. which was part of a survey of commercial aviation in the Americas, Count Henri gained a reputation as a "pusher." chafing under each delay in his aerial tour...
...ravage the U. S. coast, would the responsibility for bringing it down fall to the Navy's fleet or to the Army's Coast Artillery Corps? Long have the two services wrangled in stuffy professionalism over this point, each claiming the sole privilege of repulsing such an aerial invasion. Quietly, almost casually, the Army last week won a victory over the Navy when, after months of conferences between Army and Navy Boards and a joint Congressional Committee, General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, announced that the whole assignment had been handed over to the Coast Artillery Corps...
...week, as two plane loads of U. S. physicians and surgeons hopped, skipped and jumped through eleven countries, holding hasty clinics at pauses. On the whole, local practitioners who could not attend the Pan-American medical congress meeting at Panama City, R. P., were grateful for this U. S. aerial intrusion...
Fairchild cabin planes were early favorites in Canada. The Canadian Department of National Defense owns 32 (to the chagrin of English companies), for forest patrol, aerial photography and survey operations. Fairchild business is so good that the company is now constructing its own plant at Longueuil, 15 minutes from the heart of Montreal. Adjacent are its eight-rayed landing field, its seaplane T-dock on the St. Lawrence...
Airports of Entry. A certain amount of aerial smuggling (liquor, silks, jewels) passes over the 4,000-mi. Canadian-U. S. border. The two Governments so far have been unable to cope with it. For legitimate flying they have established customs ports of entry where officials swiftly, neatly, pleasantly clear the incoming planes. Canada has ten such ports of entry-Fredericton (seaplane station), N. B., Hamilton, Ont., Leaside (near Toronto), Ont., Lethbridge, Alta., Montreal (seaplane station), St. Hubert (at Montreal), Moose Jaw, Sask., Regina, Sask., Virden, Man., Winnipeg, Man. The U. S. has nine-Pembina, N. Dak., Portal...