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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...item in the Aeronautics section of your April 22 issue, under the caption "Bungles.". . . You say that the accident was inexcusable. Maybe so-but it was unavoidable, nevertheless, so far as the pilots of both ships were concerned. The thing, perhaps, that is inexcusable is the lack of air traffic control at large air-ports like the Ford Airport. You can figure out for yourself, very easily, that a ship nosed up going at a rate of per-haps 60 miles an hour, has a clear field ahead so far as he can see. But above him, and some distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Elinor Smith, 17, world's female endurance flight champion, lying abed recuperating from 26 hours in air (see p. 53), announced that her next feat would be a solo flight from New York to Rome. Said Mrs. Agnes Smith, her mother: "Try and stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

United Aircraft & Transport announced last week the acquisition of Stout Air Services Inc., since 1927 a passenger-carrier between Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. The Stout line with Boeing Air Transport (San Francisco-Chicago) are to be the nucleus of a transcontinental system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Merger | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...attack?a page advertisement signed by National Food Products Protective Committee, consisted of an "open letter" headed: "Shall the air be given over to destructive propaganda?"? This letter was addressed to the Advisory Council of National Broadcasting Co. Since the Advisory Council numbers among its members a long list of men and women whose U. S. citizenship is a source of U. S. pride, and since the Lucky Strike campaign has been widely, conspicuously flayed, the Open Letter was essentially a sharp contrast between the admittedly high character of the Council and the allegedly low character of the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babies' Blood | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Following is the program which will be rendered by an orchestra of 80 directed by Alfredo Casells: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Air Bach Dance-Suite for String Orchestra Purcell-Bliss Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude and Love-Death from and Isolde" "Tristan Wagner "The Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi "Ballet of the Hours," from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Second Hungarian Rhapsody Lisst

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYMPHONY HALL IS SCENE OF THIRD POPS CONCERT TONIGHT | 5/3/1929 | See Source »

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