Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promotion was one of merit, prime Hoover administrative policy. In the Department of Commerce, Mr. Young created the present system of enforcing air commerce rules, inspection, license of civil aircraft, licensing of pilots and mechanics. Last week, before his promotion, he announced new, strict rules for transport pilots. After Sept. 1 they must get their licenses renewed every six months. They will get renewals only by reproving their ability at trick takeoffs and landings. They must have flown at least ten hours solo in the types of planes for which they are licensed. And they must be able...
...Cumana, Venezuela, last week, citizens smoked their evening cigarets along the water front, striving for a breath of cool air. A little tramp steamer, her name roughly painted out, chugged into the harbor, noisily dropped her mud hook. Small boats were put out, rowed ashore. Boxes and crates were landed on the beach. From Cumana's fort an officer watched for a few minutes till he saw the fat barrel of a machine gun lifted out of a crate. Then hastily he threw away his cigaret, sounded the alarm...
Came a braying of bugles, the pad of running feet. Rifles banged and flashed, bullets bored the air. Ragged government troops and excited revolutionists darted through streets and round corners, stooping, firing, running. On the bridge of the Falke stood Capt. Tipplitt, just appointed "First Admiral of the Revolutionary Government of Venezuela." Waving an automatic pistol he forced the third officer of the Falke and a lifeboat crew to row ashore with more guns, more ammunition. On the beach the third officer was killed. Killed too was General Chalbaud, leader of the rebels, and General Emilio Fernandez, defender of Cumana...
...hearing a battery of alienists and attorneys came forth and electrified the air with attacks on Sculptor Dreyfuss's memory and intelligence. They argued his "unsociability," "potentiality to become a dangerous citizen." Two physicians from the Manhattan Hospital said he was suffering from dementia praecox and had delusions of persecution by his mother and brother...
Voice: We are leaving the city later today. We're not sure where we will go, inasmuch as we often do not decide until we get into the air...