Word: colliere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom both Collier's and the Satevepost published flattering biographies...
...since 1936, lively General Arnold succeeds the late Major General Oscar Westover, who crashed last fortnight (TIME. Oct. 3). Air corps officers esteem Henry Arnold for administrative spunk, his recent efforts to take the kinks out of procurement, his help in developing the substratosphere plane which won the 1938 Collier Trophy (TIME, Sept. 26). To get to Henry Arnold, Malin Craig passed over eleven senior air corps officers. Shortly before this selection was announced. Chicago Daily Newsman Paul R. Leach reported another result of Oscar Westover's death at 55. The War Department, wrote Correspondent Leach, soon will ground...
...being built with cabins in which, by supercharging, interior atmospheric pressure approximating that aground can be maintained at substratosphere levels. Mainly responsible for development of a supercharged cabin was the U. S. Army Air Corps. Last week the Air Corps received from President Roosevelt this year's Collier Trophy for "the greatest achievement in aviation whose value has been demonstrated in actual use." Meantime, aeronautical science has its sleeves rolled up to attack the problem of full utilization of substratosphere speed potentials...
...sick room at Rochester, Minn. several weeks ago,* James Roosevelt received Writer Walter Davenport of Collier's to reply through him to Writer Alva Johnston's article "Jimmy Got It" in the Satevepost (TIME, July 4). Last week and this, Collier's published the Roosevelt reply, "I'm Glad You Asked Me," in two installments...
...March 1, a Transcontinental & Western Air passenger plane took off from San Francisco, flew into a storm, disappeared. Three months later, Prospector H. O. Collier came upon its wreckage, strewn over a Sierra Nevada mountainside. The plane had been smashed to bits, but its tail had caught in a tree, hung high as a dead goose. The weeks of fruitless search for this and other lost planes have piled added horror on the original disaster, added worry and heavy expense for airline operators...