Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe, but was it certain that French Premier Leon Blum, although he heads a Popular Front Cabinet, wants France to fight on such an issue...
...Air conditioning, which began 30 years ago in a small way in business buildings, spread in a big way in theatres, then trains. Not until last week, however, was air conditioning brought to bus fleets. Santa Fe Trailways (controlled by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.) announced that this month it would begin operating 50 completely air-conditioned busses between Chicago and points west to Los Angeles. The new busses, square-fronted and streamlined, have separate four-cylinder engines to operate the cooling and air conditioning mechanisms, maintain a constant temperature of 65°. Cost: $17,200 each...
...dead, Fannie Ward paused on the pier to sob into a microphone: "My friends of America. . . . I'm taking my two loved ones on their last journey . . . and I say this to every mother and father in the world: Don't let your children go in the air unless you want to suffer what I am today...
...Last week Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. abandoned until summer search for its plane, lost near Fresno March 1 with nine aboard. Said Mrs. Jay Dirlam, whose son and daughter, Tracy and Mary Lou, were aboard the lost plane rushing south to their dying father's bedside: "I am convinced the disappearance of the plane was one of those unavoidable accidents. The plane was of the best and the pilots were among the best. Under the same circumstances I would still advise my children to take a plane...
...those two pronouncements U.S. airlines could have hugged Mother Dirlam and choked Mother Ward, for the greatest obstacle in the development of air travel is the public's fear of flight. To counteract the fear propaganda of Fannie Ward and other parents who do their broadcasting less publicly, United Air Lines last week had a new project afoot. It was a child's book called Air Babies, mothered by Elvy Kalep, a pretty Estonian aviatrix who once aspired to fly the Atlantic, colorfully. illustrating the adventures of two cheerful little winged sprites, Speedy and his sister Happy-Wings...