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Human Element, Captain Harry George Armstrong, M. D., is in charge of the Army Air Corps' physiological laboratory at Dayton, Ohio. After four years of research on military and commercial pilots, Captain Armstrong reported last week that too much has been expected of the human element in aviation. "A pilot begins his career," he said, "in good physical condition, with an exceptionally stable mental and emotional system. Yet, in one study, 11% of all pilots and 50% of all those who had reached the age of 30 were suffering some form of functional neurosis or nervous breakdown. And physical...
Class of 1938: Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Norwell; Walter P. Arenwald, New York; Benjamin F. Bart, West Redding, Connecticut: Harold Van B. Cleveland, Cincinnati: David E. Feller, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Alvin J. Gordon, Woston; Elpenor R. Ohle, Stonington. Connecticut; William A. Selz. Dayton, Ohio; Albert E Weiner, Waltham; and Charles Zibbell, Dorchester...
...selling insurance. Up to last week few people ever expected anyone to sell it in slot machines. The In-surograph Agency of America, incorporated in Kansas for that surprising purpose, is the notion of a small group of Wichita businessmen. In about two weeks Standard Register Co. of Dayton will begin manufacturing machines for them to put in railway and bus stations...
...department could coax into the theatre. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was invited but did not attend. Had she been there, however, she would probably not have been offended by this candid camera record of female Washington. First Lady is an almost exact celluloid reproduction of the play by Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman on which it is based. Its quips are badinage rather than satire, and direct their wit at the immemorial field of petticoat intrigue rather than at any particular person...
...dubbed it Airacuda-air for its medium; acuda, from barracuda, that giant warm-ocean pike-like fish noted as a tireless, reckless, vicious killer. To Airacuda Bell Aircraft proudly added a mixed-metaphoric subtitle "Tiger of the Skies." Last week, Army pilots who were testing it at Wright Field, Dayton, found it indeed a "tiger...