Word: birdmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sorry I cannot accept the bouquet tossed at me in TIME, July 10, under Transport, and for the record I am giving you below the information as to how the Quiet Birdmen received its name...
...Quiet Birdmen...
...High Magazine. The evening was a very entertaining one and quite noisy. Mr. Hersey turned to "Casey" Jones and said, "Well, you fellows certainly are noisy when you get together but you are quiet when anyone asks you to talk about your flying exploits. Just a bunch of quiet birdmen...
Decade ago Manhattan Publicity Counselor Harry Bruno attended an airmen's wine & dine shindig, cracked that he thought fliers were strong, silent, quiet birdmen. Result: "The Ancient & Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen," with such noted members as Charles Lindbergh, Roscoe Turner, the late Wiley Post. Qualifications: good flying, good fellowship. Chief function: convivial hell-raising...
...pilots, Russia 30,000. In all the U. S. there are less than 200. Last week most of them were gathered on a high ridge in Elmira, N. Y., for the fifth annual gliding contest of the Soaring Society of America. For two days unfavorable winds kept the impatient birdmen on the ground, but on the third day conditions were ideal. Over the flat top of Henry Harris Ridge, newly cleared at a cost of $10,000, floated fleecy cumulus clouds with their promise of thermal currents. Beyond the Chemung Valley 900 ft. below beckoned the blue hills of Pennsylvania...