Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America] and that you, Mr. Green [William Green, head of American Federation of Labor] representing millions of workers, can feel that broadcasting is reflecting either the interests of the church or the home when such harmful propaganda is sent through the air." Thus, half-incredulous, half-accusatory, the Open Letter appealed to the better natures, the higher selves, of Advisory Council members. It made particular reference to Owen D. Young (whose General Electric Co. it credited with controlling National Broadcasting), felt that Chairman Young could not knowingly permit the radio chain...
...name) as subversive to the youth of the nation. Having told how millions of "young men, women and children" assemble to hear the Lucky Strike radio orchestra, the Letter pointed out that "once attention is centred on the dance program, a flow of tainted testimonials begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these "future mothers of the nation" are encouraged to "substitute" cigarets for "wholesome food." Furthermore, American Tobacco Co. "flaunts" billboard posters of an "adolescent girl" smoking cigarets. Says the summing up: "Yes, it's a shocking business...
Last week a report leaked out regarding a monumental project: A non-stop around-the-world flight to be accomplished by refueling in the air. The flight is planned to start from New York next September. Capt. Henry W. Lyon Jr. (navigator of the Southern Cross) as navigator, Reserve Lieut. Albert D. Hulse as engineer, with others as yet unnamed, are to be the crew. A plane powered with five 420-h. p. Pratt & Whitney motors, with a cruising speed of 120 m. p. h. is to be the vehicle. Twenty-two refueling stations, including ten for emergency only...
...driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot, 1926 Harmon Trophyist. Backed by the Chicago Daily News, he will try for a standing prize of $25,000 for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo...
...slotted wing is his device. When the ordinary airplane rises at too sharp an angle with the ground, air, which must stream sucking over the wings to support them, cannot reach enough wing surface to do its work. Consequently the plane loses flying speed. It stalls. Then it drops. The Handley Page wing contains a long narrow auxiliary wing set in its forward edge. When the main wing reaches the stalling angle, the auxiliary flaps up and suddenly presents a new surface to the wind. The wind also rushes through the space between the auxiliary and main wings. The result...