Word: air
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...statement in the article on the photographs of Cambridge from the air, page 6, Section 3, column 4, that the photographer, Mr. Galaid, was a first lieutenant in the motor transport corps during the war, is incorrect. He at no time held such a rank. The mistake was discovered too late to be corrected...
...Yale kicks off. Seamans runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop-kick. The ball sails squarely for the post, but Trumbull jumps in the air and stops it with his hand just as it is crossing the cross-ropes. Yale kicks out, and the half terminates with the ball 10 yards from Yale's goal...
...generally known that the N. C. flying boats which not long ago accomplished the successful trans-Atlantic flight, were the first heavier-than-air machines in this country to be equipped with electric self-starters for each of their big Liberty engine motors...
...aerial mail routes and privately owned fast freight lines operated under government subsidy offer great possibilities. This is being done on a large scale on the Continent and there is no reason why we should let them get ahead of us. If we are to have control of the air we must have machines built in this country, and machines will not be manufactured unless there is a demand for them in commercial fields...
...Another needed improvement is the confining of air travel to certain well-defined routes where traffic could be controlled and where planes would be under constant observation...