Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springfield, Mo. as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. (He will probably also direct the Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection, the Coast & Geodetic Survey, the Lighthouse Bureau, possibly the U. S. Shipping Board.) Eugene L. Vidd, whose beauteous, dark-haired wife is daughter of Oklahoma's Senator "Blind Tom Gore, was appointed director of air regulation; Carroll J. Cone of Arkansas was appointed director of aeronautical development. Rex Martin, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller, is new director of airways; John H. Geisse of Madison, Wis. is supervising aeronautics inspector. Old-time Mail Pilot James Clark Edgerton...
Besides Depression "Clem"' Hobson has had to contend with failing eyesight. One eye went blind years ago. Last autumn his good eye dimmed. Never giving up, "Clem" Hobson went to Lausanne, had his eye operated on, hurried back to Paris before the wound was healed, to superintend the reopening of the Ambassadeurs for the present summer season. With him went a beefy British friend. After the dress rehearsal the friend rumbled up, roaring enthusiasm...
After a second operation, performed in Lausanne last week "Clem'' Hobson said: "I am quite blind. My surgeon and I have just had a long consultation with a Dutch professor. They tell me I must have six months treatment and then perhaps I may see again. It is doubtful...
...were a telescope, gazing through its opaque bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing the placid melancholy of his round face. With deliberation he closed his right eye although continuing to hold the telescope in front of him. The eye should be blind, he thought. Never mind. It's a good half-Nelson. "Gentlemen! A half-Nelson...
...administration of the trophy. Last week the award committee, chairmanned by F. Trubee Davison, announced its choice for 1932. a year not notable for spectacular achievement, as 1933 will be for 40% increase of airline speeds, for development of a "silent" transport plane (Curtiss Condor) and possible perfection of blind landing facilities. The committee might have considered the Curtiss company's production of a compact fighting plane to be carried aboard Navy airships. Or any of several companies for perfection of a controllable-pitch propeller. Or the Department of Commerce for its network of radio beacons which...