Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nassau County, N. Y. the district attorney threatened to proceed against Curtiss-Wright Airport and Roosevelt Field as public nuisances because residents complained that planes droning over their rooftops at all hours of the night made sleep impossible. The matter was settled by the field managers agreeing to a curfew of 11 p. m. in summer, 10 p. m. in other seasons. Night flying, they explained, is a Department of Commerce requisite for student flyers in qualifying for advanced ratings...