Word: flier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Onetime U. S. War Flier Charles R. Codman, who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I, inspected with his wife French military airfields, talked with French pilots fresh in from battle, airmailed the New York Herald Tribune an account whose reprise was: "We need planes. We need 5,000 planes and we need them at once...
...several years this has made less than no sense to oldtime Flier-Designer-Manufacturer Grover Loening, famed for his Navy amphibians of the '20s. Months ago, full of the profitable all-freight flights of T. A. C. A. in Central America, of K. L. M. in Europe, of the U. S. Army Air Corps (which delivers engines, propellers, etc. by aerial freighter), Grover Loening set out to convince U. S. air lines they should have their own express-freight corporation. He got nowhere until July 1939, when Railway Express Agency, seeking to formalize its monopoly of the business, suddenly...
Handsome, hulking Norman Ross was a great Olympic swimmer, a World War flier, later managed athletic tourists like Tilden, Nurmi, reported for the Chicago Journal. Now he is grey, 43, and made $25,000 last year as a Chicago radio character known to WMAQ's listeners as Uncle Normie. He has five programs on the air, the main one being an early-risers' hour for Chicago & North Western Railway. For this Uncle Normie has three alarm clocks, timed to go off one after another starting...
...drifted from one thing to another. He was a mechanic, a laborer, a commercial flier. Flying the Swedish explorer, Count Eric von Rosen, back to his castle at Rockelstad, Göring met Rosen's sister-in-law, Karin, and fell in love with her. She divorced her husband, married Göring...
...World War I flier and post-war engineer, affable, able Dr. Todt planned the German system of superhighways, designed most of the Westwall fortifications. In his new post he holds practically all the strings of German industry and technique, will answer only to Göring and his Führer...