Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intercollegiate air meet in late April or early May is the first event on this season's schedule for the club. Plans for a more active season with possible cross country flights and participation in national collegiate aviation have been made...
...going to be killed-all,'' wailed Mr. Matthews' hotel chambermaid, after living through the first twelve air raids in barely 24 hours. A Barcelona drugstore clerk from whom Mr. Matthews was buying medicine for a headache, sighed: "Oh, for a plane to fly to France! I don't want...
Last December Pan American Airways invited four makers of passenger air transports and four builders of war planes to submit plans of ocean aircraft to its unsalaried technical adviser, Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Left out of the bids was a ninth manufacturer, Major Alexander de Seversky, who promptly secured P. A. A.'s permission to submit drawings. The plane called for was to carry 100 passengers, a crew of 16, fly 5,000 miles nonstop up to 20,000 ft. at 200 m.p.h...
...recovered later to down 13 German planes, he went to the U. S. on a mission of the Tsar's Government in 1917, never returned to his sovietized land. Long a U. S. citizen, married to a U. S. girl, Alexander de Seversky joined the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, rose to the rank of major. In 1931 he organized his own company at Farmingdale, L. I., of which he is president, chief designer and test pilot. Many a Seversky design has been derided, but his planes in the air are fast, radical, practical, and he is producing...
Speaking on the subject of "Hitler's Danube and Baltic approaches to Russia," Bruce C. Hopper '24, professor of Government, predicted that "the Red Army will probably not march West to defend Czechoslovakia, but the Kremlin might send an air expedition to the Czech flying fields...