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Word: ilse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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No matter what his courses-on mortgages, notes and bills, evidence or crime-he gave them all with the same intensity. Phi Beta Kappas have flunked them and law-review editors have gotten Ds. Once he gave such a stiff examination that 31 out of his 35 students failed it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exit Growling | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

The success of GCA was something for U.S. commercial lines and the Civil Aeronautics Administration to study. Though commercial pilots have generally preferred ILS (instrument landing system) because they control landings themselves, many a commercial pilot on airlift duty has now been won over to GCA. Said one last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Answers from Germany | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

If it was, U.S. commercial pilots would be a long time getting it. For one thing, Congress has never appropriated enough money for GCA (which costs about five times as much as ILS). For another, CAA is leary of GCA because of possible Government liability in accidents.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Answers from Germany | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

While the Assembly "debate" was going on, the Communist paper L'Humanité pushed out an extra with two-inch headlines in red ink: "Alerte! Ils Veulent Assassiner la République!" The paper screamed that "the American party tears up the constitution. . . . Workers, democrats, patriots, you have the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Showdown | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Follow the Track. A block system for the air's great open spaces will help aviation's most critical ill (congestion around busy airports, especially in thick weather) by spacing arriving planes. Two different methods are being tested to get them safely down out of the crowded air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heavy Traffic | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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