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Chicago has ten vocational schools working day & night. The biggest, recently completed, has been turned over to the Navy, will train 3,000 seamen at a time to become teachers of metalsmiths. Lane and Tilden Technical High Schools plan to offer glider courses...
...Glider Pilot training with the Army Air Forces is now available to qualified civilians between the ages of 18 and 35 years...
...Glider Pilots will be chosen from aspirants with one or more of the following qualifications: (1) holders of currently effective Civil Aeronautics Administration airman's certificates, private grade or higher; (2) holder of lapsed CAA certificates, private grade or higher, provided expiration was subsequent to January 1, 1941; (3) applicants who certify they have completed 200 or more glider flights; (4) former Aviation Cadets or Aviation Students who have been eliminated for flying deficiency after successful completion of the course of elementary; (5) men who can present a letter signed by a CAA District or Regional Flight Inspector or Flight...
...Harvard Prize Scholarship for three years, was a member of the Union and Smoker committees, and is now on the Eliot House Committee and the Student Council. He has been on the ski team for three years and was captain his Sophomore year. He is also president of the Glider Club, and a member of the Signet Society...
...present, the group's best flights have been 30 miles in distance and three hours in duration. For the past two summers, it has participated in the National Glider Championship Meet at Elmira...