Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Take the Air is mostly about a hoofer who gets stranded in and about a Texas aviation field. Through the romantic entanglements of a Spanish aviatrix with a throaty lieutenant, the dark plots of a Spanish smuggler-dancer, the comedy love interest of a hot-dog lady and a splay-faced sergeant, he tap-dances his way to the heart of a pretty heiress. All this is played with the aid of a large cluster of well-dressed chorus girls, to gay and trivial songs...
...heart trouble, aged 60. He had been an important U. S. delegate to the conference and spent very much time on several of its 150 committees. Also he had been chairman of the U. S. Radio Commission since it was formed last March to regulate the bedlam of the air. President Coolidge appointed him to that post because Admiral Bullard had kept in touch with every step of wireless communication since it first became practical in the 1890's. President Wilson also appreciated him; detached him from naval duties so that he could act as director of the Radio...
...Air ports of call: Paris, Bordeaux, Biarritz, Perpignan, Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga, Seville, Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fez, Oran, Algiers, Biskra, Tunis, Catania, Naples, Rome, Venice, Pisa, Marseille, Lyons...
...nation's business will henceforth have offices in the air. Just completed are two Curtiss Falcons; standard army planes for observation and attack. In the observer's cockpit are fixed folding desks. In them will be prepared or studied reports, speeches, while Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, and the Navy's Assistant Secretary for Aviation, Edward P. Warner, are winging their ways to keep appointments...
Airplanes on skis are just completed for the Canadian air mail. The pilots will thereby be able to alight on smooth snow or ice surfaces with sacks of Christmas mail. The same equipment is to be fitted to Commander Richard Byrd's three planes which are planned to circle the South Pole...