Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snooping into closets to look up their shotguns, and stand transfixed on the golf course to watch the first wedge of wild geese trade over, out come the publishers with books on the favorite subject of some 5,000,000 U. S. males-wildfowling. This year the autumn book flight includes four of the best...
...WING SHOTS-Albert Dixon Simmons-Deny dale ($15). Born a Canadian, and a bird lover since his tenth year, Albert Simmons at 44 has perfected a technique of photographing game birds in flight, especially ducks and geese, which is better than most men's technique with a gun. He uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will...
...more than $1,000, and the most popular number sells for about $4,000. This model has one lens, is operated automatically by electricity. After the camera is set for the amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound for the next exposure...
...joined the British Royal Flying Corps in the spring of 1915 he was 17 years old. The mechanically-minded son of a minister, he was already so tall (6 ft. 3 in.) that the primitive flying machines of that period could scarcely hold him. When he made his first flight in a Maurice Farman "Longhorn," with his doubled-up knees interfering with the "handlebars" that worked the ailerons, he could understand why the War Office had almost turned him down at first glance. For the airplanes at that stage of the War -the Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets...
...short pages of text, constitute the so-called Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act, most discussed, least understood piece of business legislation passed during the last session of Congress. In the months since the Robinson-Patman Act became the law of the land, it has grown into a top-flight topic for lay and legal speakers, the subject of countless tracts, booklets, pamphlets, articles, opinions, analyses, and a prime source of worry to most of the country's businessmen. On the law's philosophy, constitutionality, interpretation there is nothing except confusion and disagreement. Vastly interested were business observers...