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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight. Heavyweight Boxer Len Harvey (himself an R. A. F. sergeant) teaches them how to take it on the chin. Psychologists teach them how to make the most of their brains and nerves. Officers teach them to respect the authority of such crackerjack leaders as their Chief of Air Staff, Sir Cyril Newall...
...Chief. Concerned with the production of both men and machines, Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall was last week one of the hardest working men in Europe. From nine o'clock sharp until dusk each day he conferred with Sir Kingsley Wood, with air counsellors, plane manufacturers, training experts. Most nights he did not get home for dinner, some nights did not get there to sleep...
...early experiments taciturn Dr. Goddard used ordinary gunpowder for fuel, has since switched to liquid fuels, such as a mixture of oxygen and gasoline, or oxygen and hydrogen-tricky to handle but highly efficient. He has sent rockets up vertically to heights of a mile and a half. His chief interest in rockets: as a possible means of carrying scientific instruments up higher than stratosphere balloons can take them. But experimenters abroad, especially in Germany and Russia, are reported to be busily developing rockets...
More piqued than panicked by Radio News's doubletalk, U. S. broadcasters last week agreed that the less said about it the better. For the record, CBS's busy News Chief Paul White commented: "So preposterous that it scarcely merits the dignity of an objection...
Died. Ford Sterling, 55 (real name, George F. Stitch), tuft-bearded, swizzle-eyebrowed chief of the Mack Sennett Keystone Cops later a stock cinemactor; of thrombosis; in Hollywood, Calif...