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...group headed by a lieutenant and a brace of ensigns wearing unseamanlike woodsman's boots and hunting knives. The newest course in the Navy's crowded curriculum for aviation cadets was about to begin: lessons in woodcraft for the young future flyers who might someday find themselves afoot and alone...
...writing, there is a movement afoot to get up a real show for the next smoker on September 23 at the Pi Eta Club. Unless the idea dies in childbirth, or cannot be pursued further, there may be some good entertainment for the icea tea festival...
...majority of spectators) were dizzy with excitement. On the Oxford side of the river, the college barges were a crush of gay parasols, gaudy blazers, tinkling tea cups, squeaking gramophones. On the other side, coaches, undergraduates, townsfolk and dogs flocked along the towpath -some on bicycle, some afoot - keeping abreast of their favorite boat. Coaches shouted through megaphones; others yelled, rattled rattles, tooted horns, fired blank cartridges. Many a cyclist in his heedless excitement pedaled over the towpath into the river...
Said Warner: ". . . Just as statesmen and soldiers have learned in the past two years to run back and forth across the Atlantic when there is need of discussion, so in the future businessmen of London or Birmingham having negotiations afoot in New York or Detroit will board a plane where once they would have sent a cablegram." To all travelers Warner promised three things: 1) reasonable fares-about $100 each way; 2) safety-a long-term average of one fatality per 100,000,000passenger-miles; 3) dependability-91-97% on-schedule flights in winter, the almost perfect record...
...postwar objectives. The details, he said, were something for the Senate to work out; but he endorsed the general idea. He thought it would be helpful for the world to know that the U.S. is ready & willing to help in maintaining future peace. In fact, plans are already afoot for as many as six United Nations conferences on various phases of the whole postwar problem. One such conference, to ponder questions of nutrition and food distribution, would be held within two months-in some small town, he hoped, any town other than Washington. In Washington the press gave too much...