Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...
Pilot Martin, a 26-year-old ex-Navy flyer, confessed to an almost incredible tale of carelessness and poor judgment. He had taken off from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
...first organized on January 19, 1938, when 400 service employees met to form a group independent of the A.F. of L., which at that time had organized a majority of the dining hall workers and was moving in on other University workers. The C.I.O. also had taken a flyer at unionizing Harvard employees, but made little progress...
...Greece. 5. New Mexico. 3. Guatemala. 81. Flyer Bill Odom set a new record by circling the globe solo in an hour and five minutes more than...
...York, got a job as an interpreter at Ellis Island, studied law at night and began pointing toward politics. In 1916 he ran for Congress as a Republican in a Tammany-controlled district, and amazed everyone except himself by getting elected. In World War I, he was a famous flyer, noted for his baggy uniform, his impatience of protocol and his patriotic speeches to huge Italian audiences...