Word: aerials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish Aerial Attack...
...Government now runs. More money went to help the Royal Aeronautical Society (England), Aero-Club de France, Associazone Italiana d'Aerotecnica, Aero Club von Deutschland to collect and disseminate important technical information which otherwise would not be published. Syracuse University got $30,000 to develop aerial photographic surveying and mapping. For a flying laboratory in which to try out instruments which would permit flyers to go through fog and darkness went several thousand dollars; for prizes in a safe airplane contest, $150,000. To the Government of Chile also went $500,000, to develop aviation, a gift from Daniel...
Born. To a Dr. & Mrs. M. D. Evans; a girl child; in a Fokker monoplane some 1,200 ft. above Miami. In the plane, beside the parents and the first aerial-born baby, were two pilots, two nurses, two attendants, the grandmother...
...better than any done by a Crimson ballcarrying quartet this year. Wood established himself as an able and alert quarterback. He played a heady and cool game throughout and although not carrying the ball once he was responsible for the last touchdown when he threw another last-minute aerial to Harding, duplicating his feat of the Army game. Harper was back to his old form again when, in the opening quarter, he made two successive first downs single handed...
...protection." In a nearby cottage a radio was spluttering instructions to liquor transports off shore. As the raiders seized the operator, a Federal radioman took the key, sent luring messages to the transports. Long had the raiding radioman practiced the syndicate's secret code. Months prior, mysterious aerial buzzes had been picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. The intricate code had been deciphered, its source determined by radio compass. Thus had Prohibition men located the syndicate headquarters. New Jersey's Prohibition-Administrator William J. Calhoun, superviser of the syndicate roundup, boasted that by eavesdropping on this telltale...