Word: airway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gained 203 of Michigan's total of 353 yards from scrimmage. At the end of the first half, Yale had made only one first down; just before the end of the third quarter, they crossed midfield for the first time; and, although they managed to sneak in an airway touchdown in the last few minutes of the game, their 27-to-7 drubbing was practically a knockout. All afternoon the husky Yales had gained only 35 yards from scrimmage...
Into action last week went the first transcontinental airway ever born full grown. It was also the first airline to span Canada, bridging the 2,688 miles between Montreal and Vancouver. The 130,000,000 U. S. citizens have only just begun to support their three transcontinental air routes. Whether the passenger traffic from 11,120,000 Canadians could support one did not bother Trans-Canada's operators. The line is Government-controlled and should pay its way by airmail revenue alone...
Griped Newark's greying Mayor Ellenstein over the Little Flower's coup: "Without the first consideration for the lives of passengers and pilots, Mayor LaGuardia seems determined to resort to every stratagem to have New York designated as the official Eastern airway terminal...
Last week, Laryngologist Edward Anderson Looper of the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced that an operation he devised in 1937 had succeeded in restoring their voices to five of his patients. Purpose of the operation is to keep the airway open by using the horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone at the root of the tongue as a wedge in the larynx. His technique consists of cutting loose the upper left end of the bone, swinging it down into the desired position in the larynx, and planting it in the thyroid cartilage, firmest section of laryngeal framework. The soft tissues...
...William) Harllee Branch, a Washington news correspondent who, after 30 years in news paper work from typesetting to editing, became executive assistant to Postmaster General Farley in 1933. Only airline executive named to the Authority was 34-year-old Socialite George Grant Mason Jr., foreign representative of Pan American Airways in charge of Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald Ryan, fifth member, has for six years been...