Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed. James M. Schoonmaker Jr., onetime chief engineer of Dayton-Wright Co. (aircraft): to be president of General Aviation Corp. and Fokker Aircraft Corp., succeeding Harris M. Hanshue who resigned to devote full time to Western Air Express. Also resigned: General Aviation Corp.'s vice president and general manager William T. Whalen to rejoin General Motors...
...ends in fire. Unless the pilot can extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...
...will use the pouch for valuable express shipments. One drawback to adoption of the bag by the Post Office is its weight?20 Ib. as compared to the present 6-lb. type...
Prince, of Holbrook, Mass., who grabbed his two-year-old mistress by the seat of her rompers, pulled her from a railroad track just as an express was rounding the curve...
...year and one-half ago Engineer Hoover Jr. was engaged by Western Air Express to set up its communications system. Starting with three small stations between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, he now directs a network of 27 stations spread over western U. S., guiding radio-equipped planes along 15,000 mi. of airways. His staff numbers 75 engineers, researchers, operators, maintenance men. On his advice, Western Air bought $200,000 worth of airplane radio equipment. From communications chief he was last month promoted to chief engineer of the company (TIME, June...