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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the President again declared that only an Einstein could yet figure anything definite from his Rearmament plans but at a White House press conference he gave out a mimeographed announcement by the new Civil Aeronautics Authority: "President Roosevelt today approved a program presented [by CAA] for the annual training of approximately 20,000 pilots in the colleges and universities of the U. S., and authorized the allocation of $100,000 in National Youth Administration funds for the initial phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sound Business | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...planes for 300 physically fit college students. If the experiment works well, and Congress appropriates some $9,800,000 a year to enlarge and continue the program, 20,000 new fledgling pilots (less casualties) may be turned out each year. Secondary objective, stressed more by the President than by CAA, is that the plan will create a reserve of fledglings who after 50 hours in the air will not be so green as the youngsters who enroll annually for Army training at Randolph Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sound Business | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week the CAA, in its first big airport decision, gave its nod to the Gravelly Point site, immediately set about securing a $4,000,000 PWA appropriation, cooperation of the Army Engineering Corps and WPA labor to get the new Washington National Airport under way. A mile further downriver than the present field, the site lies three and a half miles from the centre of the capital, ten minutes away via the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway. Immediate plans call for a 750-acre field, 500 acres to be "made" with fill dredged from the river bottom and graded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Dream Field | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...northeast. Peskiest bug in the project is the new, and roundly protested, research laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, sticking up like a sore thumb on Gravelly Point no feet above the Potomac and just to the west of the proposed field. Last week CAA and army engineers were planning to build the necessary air field structures in line with the laboratory building. Only other important objection to Gravelly Point has been that air activity there might conflict with traffic at the Army's Boiling Field, just across the river. That was ironed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Dream Field | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...disgust, Eastern, spurning machines and decimal fractions, offered the decisively low bid of $0.00. The Post Office department sniffed these bargain figures cautiously. Allowing that Eastern's zero bid might be quite legal, it hemmed and hawed, then announced that it would leave the decision up to incoming CAA. But last week, just before CAA came in, the Post Office decided that $.00001907378 saved is $.00001907378 earned, awarded the Brownsville link to zero-bidding Eastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pinched Penny | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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