Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curate behind the ribbons at St. John the Baptist's is the Rev. Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth, 58, and three years ago he was an R.A.F. air vice-marshal, with a C.B. (Companion of the Bath) and C.B.E. (Commander Order of the British Empire) after his name. A professional fighting man with a record of service around the world and the long habit of command, he now works at the beck and call of St. John's aging and nearly blind vicar, the Rev. Andrew Nugee, must tumble out of bed to take early service when...
...When Air Vice-Marshal D'Aeth an nounced his intention to enter the ministry at the farewell dinner given him on his retirement from the R.A.F., "it spoiled a jolly good evening. No one knew how to treat me afterwards." But such announcements are growing less unusual all the time. Across Britain, parish-church notice boards are quietly ablaze with initial letters of decorations awarded new curates and vicars in their old careers. At last month's meeting of the Anglican selection board for ministerial training, the only two candidates over 40 were army majors; at the R.A.F...
Rebounding from a first-quarter loss last year, United Air Lines announced that it will show a profit this year on the basis of "record revenues." Said President W. A. Patterson: "The unprecedented traffic was partly due to the improvement in economic conditions generally and the gradually heavier use of air travel for business reasons...
...after two years, bought an Ercoupe and began flying. He became an airplane broker to satisfy other flyers' needs for planes, soon switched to being a dealer (adding five years to his age to impress customers). He got his first big chance after World War II when the Air Force decided to bypass preliminary trainers and begin fledgling flyers in North American AT-6s (advanced trainers). When other countries followed the U.S., a shortage developed, since North American had stopped making the planes. Ayer scoured the world for the ATs (he found 15 on an abandoned British airstrip...
...hustings 01' Gene is verminous in his tactics, but as raffishly delightful as a hillbilly Jim Curley. He waves his false teeth in the air and slobbers: "Them N-double-A-C-P goons knocked my teeth out." When a heckler asks about $14,000 grafted from a power contract, Massie chuckles, slaps his back pocket and says, "I got it right hyer . . . an' you ain't gon' git a nickel of it neither...