Word: aero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in a Kiplingesque Indian hill station 53 years ago, he first grew interested in aviation while on leave from his regiment, the Gurkha Rifles, in 1911. He spent his whole leave learning to fly, finally earned the Royal Aero Club's Certificate...
...introduction so that he would not be stranded-he had his first taste of public adulation and it was good. He had done something which, after it was done, his logical mind could perceive, was reasonable occasion for acclaim. He had the time of his life standing on the Aero Club balcony with Ambassador Herrick and waving flags at the crowd below. When he returned to the U. S. after visiting the capitals of Europe and rode, up Fifth Avenue in a paper shower, he knew that he had hit the jackpot, and he was willing to enjoy it while...
...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...
Behind the policy is Associated Aviation Underwriters who, with United States Aviation Underwriters and Aero Insurance Underwriters, specialize in air-travelers' insurance. Big difficulty of actuaries was to obtain a broad enough base for computing risks because although airlines roll up countless millions of ''passenger miles" only about 350,000 individuals actually fly each year and of these barely 5% take extra air insurance at present rates. Nevertheless, U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce charts show that while eight years ago airplanes flew 125,000 miles, today they fly 1,050,000 between accidents...
...Flight From Glory" with Chester Morris and Whitney Bourne, dealing with the lives of outcast aviaters into whose world in the desert is suddenly thrust a woman. Most people are either arch admirers or ardent haters of Chester Morris. Others will find "Flight From Glory" a moderately exciting aero thriller...