Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lynn, Mass., Joseph Murphy, 7, pretended to be the son of William Tell, placed-an apple on his head. His friend Alfred Howard, 8, William Tell with an air rifle, shot Joseph in the chin...
...operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government needs a large and efficient air service to provide trained men and ready material in case of war. For that future possibility it is paying the mail carriers a virtual subsidy as are foreign governments. In Europe the subsidies average $1 a mile flown, with little return in the form of postage...
...compromise may, however, entail the wiping out of some air mail routes. Mr. Brown himself indicated that last week. Said he to the Washington Advertising Club: "My own judgment is that the Federal Government should concentrate its exceptional aid on a few natural transportation routes which have been traveled by ox team, pony express, railroad, automobile and airplane, because people and commodities have naturally traveled over such routes since white men came to America...
...Including Harris M. Hanshue and James G. Woolley, Western Air Express; L. H. Mueller, Varney Air Lines; Col. M. H. Britten, Northwest Airways; Paul Henderson and Lester D. Seymour, National Air Transport; Phil Johnson, Boeing Air Transport; George Schierberg, Robertson Aircraft Corp.; Gen. John F. O'Ryan and James A. Walsh, Colonial Air Transport; Clifford Ball, Clifford Ball Air Lines; Hainer Hinshaw, Universal Air Lines; Alex H. Beard, Continental Air Lines...
...national air tour for Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy...