Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stearman Company is now capitalized at $600,000 and is producing one of the most refined commercial biplanes on the market. This ship is flown by the air lines, by the government and is very popular with people of wealth who take up aviation as a sport...
Swallow, the only Wichita plant listed, is the first commercial plant and is the mother of no less than fifteen other plants throughout the United States that have sprung from it. The other plants we feel should be listed are Travel Air Mfg. Co., Inc., Stearman Aircraft Co., and the Cessna Aircraft Company...
...Travel Air is second, if not first, in the number of planes produced by commercial factories in the United States. The Travel Air was recently recapitalized and is now rated at $1,875,000, the heaviest capitalized company limited to the production of commercial aircraft. Construction now under way will make it the unchallenged, greatest commercial airplane factory in the nation. . . . Various models ot Travel Air sell from...
...such virulence as that of 1918. Nonetheless, it was a wise and (with Christmas holidays so near) a convenient move for scores of schools and colleges to close classes last week. Sensible people followed medical advice-to avoid crowds and ill-ventilated places, to exercise well in the open air and sunlight, to eat well, to take to bed at the first signs of malaise. And statisticians were left to calculate the enormous resultant loss in productive power...
...problems. Transport men heard papers on airgraphics (meteorology), airways, airports, organization, operation and maintenance of airlines, radio directors, electro-magnetic compasses, altitude finding by radio echo. Private flying-clubs, a successful stimulant to aviation in England, are beginning to appear in the U. S. Significant was the observation that air travel now costs the passenger only 14? a mile against railroad fare of 4? a mile...