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Undoubtedly the Duke would have preferred to fly over on a Clipper, but the Duchess is always firm in saying: "I don't like to fly." The first of her three husbands was a U. S. Navy flier, and Mrs. Wallis Spencer undoubtedly saw and heard of enough deadly crashes to make her hate aircraft as much as she hates cats. Says she: "I pray that trains will never stop running...
...Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission, no one doubted that General Motors' Allison plant would get plenty of steam in its boiler. To see what could be done about speeding up the main Indianapolis plant, the Army Air Corps sent as its factory representative a famed flier-engineer who was once one of its brightest technical stars. Stubby, go-getting Reserve Major James Harold Doolittle, famed speed pilot and Sc.D. in Aeronautical Engineering (M. I. T.), was recalled to active duty from civilian life, was glad to answer the call. From Shell Petroleum Corp., which had lured...
...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...