Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem for Kansas City. He weighed protests from Louisianans against the land compensations provided under flood control...
...inserted in the September issue. The name of the authoress was Marvel Crosson. Last week as some 1,600,000 copies of The Country Gentleman were about to appear, Aviatrix Crosson was killed while flying from Santa Monica, Cal., to Cleveland in the Women's Air Derby (see p. 50). Obviously unable to recall the issue, Editor Rose waited to see what readers would say about the curiously ironical words with which the story ended...
Clearly the existence of such a state of mind meant that last week "The City" was putting heavy pressure on the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and through him on Chancellor Snowden. As Mr. Lamont left London to sail on the Olympic for Manhattan, his cheerful air kindled confidence among businessmen that "The City" would yet put things right...
Physical Exercise & Health. One hour's exercise a day for a week increases the capacity of the lungs and their ability to transfer oxygen from the air to the lungs. The maximum result develops in five to six weeks of such exercise. If after such period physical exercise is neglected altogether, the gain in power lasts for several months.?Connecticut's Edward Christian Schneider and Gordon C. Ring...
...Cierva, son of a Spanish diplomat, has been building air machines since he was 16. Eleven years ago a trimotored job which he designed crashed on its first flight with one of his friends. The accident set him striving for safety...