Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bravo for TIME's impartial presentation of air travel sentiments. Fanny Ward [whose daughter, Lady Plunket, was killed in an airplane crash (TIME, April 4)] is entitled to all the world's sympathy . . . but she should not take it upon herself to prejudice an increasingly air-minded generation...
There is but one passenger fatality to every ten million passenger air miles...
RICHARD J. BENNETT United Air Lines Cheyenne...
...tracking errors for his father. Rumors that he had squelched Radio Commentator Boake Carter were in turn squelched. Commentator Carter was said to have complained volubly that the Administration had "got" Radiorating General Hugh Johnson for his carping, was now persecuting him. No Administration forced General Johnson from the air nine weeks ago, but cessation of the Grove Bromo Quinine broadcast, on which he appeared, did.* Counter-rumors reported that the President's secretariat, far from "persecuting" Commentator Carter, had used its influence to keep Carter's radio chain and sponsor from bearing down on him lest Carter...
...released in full, but observers noted: 1) It omits the expected direct reference to Palestine, although indirectly referring to existing Italian treaty rights in connection with that mandate. 2) Britain and Italy agree to bring each other up to date each year with information on their military, naval and air forces. 3) Respecting the interests of Italy in the Mediterranean, which were to have been called "vital" while those of Britain were to have been called only "essential," this whole matter is covered by simply reaffirming the Italo-British Gentlemen's Agreement of Jan. 2, 1937. 4) Unexpectedly Italy...