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...vice president, onetime crack test pilot of nearly all Douglas aircraft (e.g., DC-3 transport, A20 attack "Havoc" bomber, etc.); and Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton...
...strike began at Dayton and spread with powder-train swiftness across Ohio's great industrial areas, the bewildered U.S. public wondered what had come over their Nell. The affairs of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers, affiliated with neither C.I.O. nor A.F. of L., had been so calm that millions did not know the union existed. But the Dayton local, like many others, had been quietly tapping its foot for months over an "emergency"' company practice. To lure operators to war-production centers, the company had offered an $18.25-a-week expense bonus to any transferring from smaller...
...Revolt. To the seething union the case was obvious-the company was maintaining womanpower in Dayton's war-tight labor market without raising its basic wage rates. Finally the foot-tapping ceased. With abrupt, feminine exasperation, the operators went on strike...
Before coming to Harvard, Stahl worked for eight years with Harold Olsen at Ohio State, where his coaching played an important part in lifting the Buckeyes high up in the Western Conference. Pre- viously, he had coached basketball for four years at Stivars High in Dayton, Ohio, and had in that time developed three state championship teams...
...inventors, H. Erwin Hale and Irving Doyle, began work on the sight in 1938. With military secrecy lifted, Hale told the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences in Dayton that the sight, known as K8, has been found three or four times as accurate as mechanical sights. K-8 is not the first electrical sight: the British have a similar one, called Mark II, and a third, developed by General Electric, is in use in U.S. Superfortresses (the Germans are believed to have no comparable sight...