Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welcomed his wife home from England ; greeted swart, mustached Ecuadorian President Dr. Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, in the U.S. on a state visit...
...skirts, overseas caps to match, civilian pilot wings on left breast pocket, tan broadcloth shirts and ties. For flying there will be helmets and grey-green slenderizing slacks (see cut). (Uniforms required on active duty only, optional at other times.) WAFS training starts this week at a New Castle (Del.) airport with 25 pilots of at least 200 horsepower rating and 500 hours' flying time. After four weeks the women pilots, most of whom have already been flying for the war effort, will begin ferrying light trainer and liaison planes all over the continental U.S. This, says Mrs. Love...
Establishment of the bases, under a Good Neighbor agreement, had the hearty endorsement of Ecuador's liberal, hemisphere-minded President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio. The U.S. had been negotiating for them since 1940, last year granted a $500,000 RFC loan for the "commercial improvement" of Albermarle Island, largest of the Galápagos group. (Navy-minded Franklin Roosevelt cruised among the islands on the U.S.S. Houston...
...service pilots as Civil Service employes (at $3,000 a year). As boss of the new squadron the Air Forces picked photogenic, 28-year-old Mrs. Nancy Harkness Love, flying wife of a lieutenant colonel in the Air Transport Command, set her up in business at headquarters at Wilmington, Del...
...poor to make somebody else rich"), but to the Indian there is still only one man whose voice is magic. He is another Indian, a man born to poverty who became a great revolutionist, a fireball reformist and an enduring popular hero-Lázaro Cárdenas y del...