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Engines. Last week Clarence Duncan Chamberlin marched into print with a charge that the increase in transport accidents since last summer was due to the inability of new twin-engined planes to take off and fly safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower...
...locate the grave of his mother. When he was a moppet of four in Corydon, Ky. his mother had run away from her husband and two children, married a man in Evansville, Ind. named Fortune. She went to Florida and after Fortune's death married a man named Chamberlin. At the time of his brother's death by a fall from a cherry tree when Albert Chandler was 14, he received a postcard: "God take care of you, my son. Mother"-the only word he ever had from her. Her brother later told him she had died...
...Last fortnight famed Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (New York-Germany), aviation chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers., pooh-poohed this project as possible but ''very impractical." His argument: For less money, planes can be built (and lines subsidized) to cross the ocean without artificial stations...
Economics 4, a composite of two old half courses in railroads and corporations respectively, was given as a unit for the first time last year by Associate Professor Mason and Assistant Professor Chamberlin. It contains a wealth of interesting and important material, not yet fully hammered into shape...
...with it and at the same time avoid repetition. The lectures them-selves very, but on the whole, are fair enough. They can be expected to show considerable improvement, as this is the first year they have been delivered by the men in charge. One gets the impression that Chamberlin and Mason are more interesting than some of their presentations would indicate...