Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined the Times in 1929. He was a flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...
Your Wings was published in January 1937. Before long, flying schools began to recommend it to students. Airlines, instrument companies, even CCC camps bought it. Tennessee, where flying courses are provided in State-run air schools, made it a textbook. Your Wings got its mightiest circulation zoom last spring, when the Soviet Government cornered the Russian rights and distributed 100,000 copies...
...companion book to Your Wings, Funk & Wagnalls last fall published Jordanoff's Through the Overcast, a course in weather and instrument flying done in the same pithy, well-illustrated style. By itself and packaged with Your Wings it has thus far sold 10,000 copies in the U. S., is still going at the rate of about 500 a week...
Last week Mayor Wilson's nearly completed 1,000-acre memorial to himself ran into an obstacle. Some 3,000 feet dead east of the 5,000-foot east-west "instrument-landing" runway lies historic Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack...
Only real drawback to Dr. Schindler's gastroscopy is the difficulty in getting his instrument properly made. The one he uses was made in Germany and so far none have been made in this country...