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...original airports, built by the Canadian Government, were too small and the U.S. insisted that they be expanded. Canada agreed, but asked Washington to foot the bill for all costs not justified by the permanent airway. Now Ottawa is prepared to undertake the additional war costs...
Other points from Dr. Ivy's paper: > In deep wounds of the face, the first consideration is to make sure that there is a good airway for breathing-bandage should press the chin, the tongue should be kept out of the way (if a patient cannot control his tongue, it can be fastened to the clothing by a single stitch through it). Lives may be saved if men wounded in the lower jaw are kept either upright or lying face downward. Recumbent they may choke to death...
Along the 761-mile airway between Stratford, Conn., and Dayton, Ohio, farmers in the fields last summer saw a strange craft skittering overhead. It had no wings. Its spraddle-legged landing gear hung gauntly from its snub-nosed body. Above the fuselage whirled a shimmering set of paddles, like a busy egg beater. On an open frame at the tail whirled another but smaller airscrew, in a vertical plane: even the tail surfaces of the what-is-it were busy...
Drafted last week to a job for which he has long been pointed and is ably qualified to handle was expert, hard-working ICC Chairman Joseph B. Eastman. The job: director of newly created Office of Defense Transportation, over all rail, highway, airway, waterway (including coastal and intercoastal) and pipeline services. ODT is the greatest challenge to Eastman in his long career-that of wartime coordinator of all U.S. transportation. His task...
...other side of Africa, in British Nigeria, he boarded Pan American Airway's Cape Town Clipper, which was homeward bound on a test flight to the Belgian Congo and back. One day last week, Steinhardt landed in New York. For newsmen, the tall, angular man who has been observing the agony of Russia from inside had only: "Until I report in Washington I have nothing to say." At the White House, before the President left for Warm Springs, Steinhardt began his report. This week, with the President's return, he will read on from his diplomatic book...