Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week United's president, William Allan Patterson, in three consecutive and almost identical statements (in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.) had made his position clear: United believes in the "chosen instrument" as the best U.S. policy in international aviation...
...Pros. The "chosen instrument" minority believes that if U.S. airlines compete against one another in the international air, they will not have the economic strength to fend off the Government-backed air monopolies of Britain, France, Russia and other nations. For if U.S. competitors duplicate facilities and subdivide the available traffic, their profits will be so small that aggressive competition will either 1) drive them out of business or 2) force them back in the slow death of Government subsidies. Their program, instead, would be to organize a Federally-regulated combination (the "instrument"), in which each interested U.S. line could...
...Herbert Schwetman played a hot cornet, while Cokey Wing, Colonel Fox, and Send-me-Sandford backed him up with violins. Lt. Mawhinney on the tuba and Ensigns Jackson and Hofheimer showed the faculty that there's more to harmony than Fourier Analysis. Miss Frances Jennings played the electronic musical instrument, the Theremin...
Everette "Buzz" Buskirk, 4-43, Indiana University and Remington of that state. He played with a Chicago orchestra, and joined the Navy in November, 1941, serving a year at the Naval Air Station in Alaska before receiving his commission. He claims music as his business, and can teach any instrument; although playing the trombone for the band. He also played for a USO troupe show before joining...
Every one of these men has played some sort of musical instrument since junior high school days. All of them were considered good enough to be featured over local radio stations, some of them regularly...