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...Pricked ears as the air-minded Duke of Sutherland, chairman of the Royal Aero Club and whilom Parliamentary Under Secretary for War (1928-29) demanded to know what was Britain's fighting strength in the air and whether His Majesty's Government did not propose to increase...
...late Robert Joseph Collier, son of old Publisher P. F. Collier of Collier's Weekly. Besides being editor of Collier's after the Spanish-American War, Son Robert was an early aeronaut, a director in 1909 of Wright Airplane Co., president in 1911 of Aero Club of America. In the Mexican border disorders of 1913 he loaned a plane & pilot to the Army, first use of an airplane by U. S. military forces...
...National Aeronautic Association, heir to certain functions of the old Aero Club, has continued administration of the trophy. Last week the award committee, chairmanned by F. Trubee Davison, announced its choice for 1932. a year not notable for spectacular achievement, as 1933 will be for 40% increase of airline speeds, for development of a "silent" transport plane (Curtiss Condor) and possible perfection of blind landing facilities. The committee might have considered the Curtiss company's production of a compact fighting plane to be carried aboard Navy airships. Or any of several companies for perfection of a controllable-pitch propeller...
American Houses. In Hazleton, Pa. on the outskirts of the anthracite region, stands a neat rectangular little dwelling painted sky green and as simple as a candy box. Under its flat roof of rolled steel-&-aluminum are a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath. The cellarless foundation is aero-cement; the frame, steel; the walls, asbestos composition. Six unskilled workmen assembled it in a month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing...
...sang with Ernestine Schumann-Heink in a huge Ocean Grove (N. J.) festival, maintained perfect poise until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from Col. Clarence Chamberlin. He was selling insurance when the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church chose him from 46 applicants to be its tenor soloist. There followed concerts with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, concerts on his own, numerous festival engagements, finally an operatic debut...