Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First person to take out a special air policy was Horatio Barber. In 1912 he went to Lloyd's in London to insure himself against liability to passengers who might travel in a fleet of five planes which he owned. Lloyd's knew nothing of the risks, told him to write out his own policy, being just to them and himself. That led to an affiliation with Lloyd's which, after the War, distracted him from flying. Now, 54, he is in Manhattan, president of Barber & Baldwin, Inc., underwriting affiliates with Aero Underwriters Corp...
...United the deal looked wise. It lines up one of the best planes in the world with other United subsidiaries-Boeing, Vought, Hamilton Metalplane, Pratt & Whitney motors, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, Stout Airlines.* Whether Curtiss Flying Service, a subsidiary of United's competitor Curtiss-Wright Corp., will continue to sell Sikorsky planes was last week unannounced...
...never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...
...First air crossing of the Channel occurred in 1785, in a hydrogen-filled balloon piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard...
...Minister himself. The Deputies, overawed by M. Poin-caré's gargantuan logic, had given him a vote of confidence 304 to 239 on a minor issue, but they had also grown sick and tired of the sound and sight of him. Sighs of relief stirred the sultry air as the Government's defense was taken over by pouchy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, wise and wily as an old tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning, sonorous orator. Whereas M. Poin-caré had piled the Chamber's rostrum mountains high with...