Word: clavier
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...little man, Charles Clavier, 33, regarded the ship's radio equipment with dancing eyes. That was to be his job, to pick up weather signals midair; to study the air tides, take the radio compass bearings. It was work with which 18 years in the French navy, including four trans-Mediterranean air flights, had made him most familiar. He had brought over from France special instruments, contributed by the big corporation, Radio des Industries. After an annoying fortnight with U. S. customs officials, he had installed and tested his station while the ship's engines and flying gear...
...engines and flying gear were what M. Clavier's tall, slow comrade, Jacob Islamoff, 28, was inspecting one last time. He had worked on this ship, the S-35, ever since her designs were first unfolded in the Sikorsky shops. Out over the ocean it would be his task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which...
...entered the plane's rear cabin. His mother and father were in Constantinople; he would go and see them. Little M. Clavier, whose wife and three children waited at home, said: "I will never leave France again...
...flames shook itself up from the gully, furbelowed with black. Captain Fonck and Lieutenant Curtin were found struggling to their feet, 20 yards from the inferno they had escaped before it burst. The flames had their way for hours. Then, certain cinders, a Koran, a crucifix, indicated where Charles Clavier and Jacob Islamoff had burned behind jammed doors. There was no angry inquiry as to why the "dolly" had not been finally tested. Pilot Fonck, Lieutenant Curtin, Designer Sikorsky and his aids, were all exonerated by the coroner of criminal negligence. Some "fanatics" (he did not name them) plagued...
...view of the lack of cooperation on the part of the crew, it seems highly undesirable that I should attempt to continue in the present position of head coach after this date. Much as I regret this step, nothing but harm can result where clavier confidence does not exist on the part of both oarsmen and coach...