Word: could
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Transatlantic mail service offers a great opportunity for American enterprise. For this purpose we must make it possible to pick up burdens on the wing, in order that a plane could start on its trip across the Atlantic with a full load of baggage and comparatively light supply of fuel. Passing over its mother ships stationed along the route it could pick up supplies of fuel from the mastheads. This is not as impractical as it seems. In the fall of 1918 I succeeded in picking up a load of 150 pounds in a flight by means of an elastic...
...first great development in aviation here should be the establishment of a large number of well-appointed landing places along the important trade routes. The vast majority of flying accidents are caused by the lack of good landing places. If, for example, it could be made possible for a pilot flying from Boston to New York to be never out of gliding distance of a sufficiently large and even landing ground the danger of the flight would be practically eliminated...
...Another needed improvement is the confining of air travel to certain well-defined routes where traffic could be controlled and where planes would be under constant observation...
...motive, so strong that, in spite of doctors' orders, he made trips to Cambridge to speak before Memorial Day gatherings and each new Freshman class. The triumph of this motive made him a master financier and the foremost private citizen of the Commonwealth. He desired "men who could be trusted." What could not be done if we worked entirely with trustworthy men? Only with such did he deal; and in so far as he could, he labored that all Harvard men should "remain within the truth." In his address to the Class of 1923, scarcely a month ago, he voiced...
...plans for a triangular air race between Harvard, Yale, and Columbia would offer a new field of competition for the members of these three universities. What better rival of a Yale game could there be than an Intercollegiate Air Derby ending at Soldiers Field or the Yale Bowl? It would be without question nearly the biggest event of the college year...