Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison signed contracts with five aviation companies to build 162 U. S. Army airplanes for $5,000,000. When completed as part of the Army's five-year air expansion program, these planes will constitute the largest unit ever added to the U. S. airfleet in peacetime...
...Last week Secretary Newton sped by air and rail from Washington to Minneapolis where his six-year-old son had been run over by a street car while riding a bicycle, had had a leg amputated...
Ship-Beauty. With the air full of birdsong and Findhorn murmurs, tactful Georges Leygues, France's fearsomely mustached Minister of Marine, ex-Prime Minister of France (1921), did his little bit for peace. He could not reduce France's navy, but at least he could make it look peaceable, he could beautify it. So France's new battleships and cruisers are to be decorated with sculpture and figured bas-reliefs. Charged with beautifying the battleships was an elderly sculptor, named Moreau-Vauthier...
...partition and clumped upon the passengers. Struggling desperately, four passengers, the pilot and mechanic kicked and tore their way out of the fuselage. They went back in and tried to haul the baggage off the others. As they worked the seven drowned. It was the fifth worst accident in air history. Friends of flying faced it frankly, studied the details for lessons in the progressive art of air safety...
...world's four worst heavier-than-air accidents: December 1924, Imperial Airways plane, at Croydon, eight killed; January 1929, U. S. Army plane at Royalton, Pa., seven killed; December 1928, at Rio de Janiero, 14 killed; March 1929, Colonial Airways, sightseeing plane, at Newark, N. J., 14 killed...