Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent death of Edwin C. Musick, pilot of the airplane that fell into the Pacific near Pago Pago, is a blow to aviation's progress, as American flying has lost one of its oldest and ablest servants, Musick made his first flight in 1913 in a homemade plane, and during the World War he enlisted in the aviation section of the signal corps, and subsequently served as an instructor in the army. He was one of the three Americans who have received the Harmony trophy; Charles Lindbergh and Wiley Post being the other...
...Said Edwin Grant Conklin, famed Princeton biologist and retiring A. A. A. S. president: "The ethics of science regards the search for truth as one of the highest duties of man; it regards noble human character as the finest product of evolution: it considers the service of all mankind as the universal good; it teaches that both human nature and human nurture may be improved, that reason may overcome unreason, co-operation supplement competition, and the progress of the human race through future ages be promoted by human intelligence and purpose...
...week, in smart Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh's East End, Westinghouse engineers installed a wireless telephone and three transmitters, announced that they were sending "up to a radius of 2,000 miles" on station KDKA the complete Calvary service. Only two months before, Calvary's Rector Edwin Jan van Etten had listened to the world's first radio broadcast, on KDKA-the Harding-Cox Presidential returns...
Progress, From then until this year's Japanese invasion the material progress of Chiang's China has been phenomenal. He called in Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton to give China the plan for its first sound currency, and the first ever accepted on a nation-wide basis. Roads and busses to run on them were sent stabbing far into China from her ports, and the more busses the fewer bandits. Flood control and famine-fighting agencies which had functioned piecemeal in China were given coordination. In a land which has existed for centuries in a state...
...stop was established at Pago Pago, Samoa, 1,538 miles farther south, where the clippers are prepared for the 1,798-mile jump into Auckland. Last week, flying his 19-ton. Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn, 43-year-old veteran Captain Edwin C. Musick uneventfully traversed this route. This week he will begin scheduled fortnightly service (mail & express only) between New Zealand and Hawaii just in time to save the franchise. Airmail time between the U. S. and the Antipodes will be four days. Steamships take 18. In six months Imperial Airways...