Word: insley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord's Business. The pilots and mechanics also came as gifts. S.I.L. had no money to pay them; so before joining the airline, each man had to get some church or individual to guarantee his salary ($100 monthly at the most). Pilot George Insley, 35, veteran of World War II bombing missions and five years in the Strategic Air Command (he left as a major), is supported by three churches and four private individuals. But S.I.L. pilots are not tempted by the fat rewards of business. "This is business, too," says California-born Chief Pilot Omer Bondurant...
This week in Washington the National Bureau of Standards announced that mica had been successfully synthesized by three of its scientists, Dr. Herbert Insley, Alvin Van Valkenburg and Robert Pike. The new product is equal to natural mica as an insulator, far superior in its ability to withstand high temperatures...