Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fish. ¶ Voted 169 to 159 for an adjournment blocking a vote on the Senate's measure to have the Muscle Shoals power and fertilizer project operated by the U. S. ¶ Passed the bill urged by Col. Lindbergh (opposed by Assistant Secretary of War Davison) to put Air Corps officers on a promotion list separate from other Army officers; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed a bill raising the Army rank of Dr. James F. Coupal, White House physician, from Major to Colonel. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $5,000,000 to eradicate pink boll-weevils...
...Resolved that the Commerce Committee should investigate the shooting of a Niagara Falls citizen by a Coast Guardsman (see PROHIBITION). ¶ Passed Senator Brookhart's resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate chain stores. ¶ Approved the House bill authorizing reduction of the air mail rate from 10 cents per half-ounce to 5 cents. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an inquiry into the diversion of commerce from U. S. to Canadian ports. ¶ Passed bills to decorate the crew of the Atlantic-crossing NC4 and to strike a special medal for Fliers Chamberlin...
...Harvard Flying Club Travelair plane will rise into the air at the Boston Airport this noon at 12 o'clock bound for Hartford, Conn., where, at 2 o'clock, it will compete in the New England Aeronautical Society meet over Brainard Field...
Following the various flying events the group of pilots will make an inspection tour of the Pratt and Whitney factory, makers of Wasp, air-cooled engines, and will later witness an exhibition of Handley Page wing being demonstrated on a Moth plane...
...true that much of the advance of aeronautics, like that of the automobile industry, has arisen from the demand for greater speed. But if the brick speedway was a risky school of improvement, the air is at least equally dangerous. The Harvard Flying Club has made its original fulfillment of its two most important by-laws richer by repetition; "purchasing an aeroplane... for the instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been...