Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cylinder. As Pilot Claude Seaton turned back to the field the disintegrating motor apparently ripped open its cowling, forming such a centre of head resistance that the ship slewed sidewise into the ground. Like the Braniff crash, the crack-up of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed near Miles City, Mont. Jan. 13 was due to mechanical failure. Last week CAA announced its apparent cause: a fire, originating in a floorboard compartment in the pilot's cabin through which passes the cross-feed emergency gasoline line between the two engines...
...Sunday, he was home here in Springfield from Cincy, the last thing he said was, "Mother please don't ever destroy any of my TIME magazines if you should move?" So I didn't. I had to move Nov. 12, as this move was unsatisfactory, moved again Jan. 12 but each time I moved boxes of TIME magazines, even the move men complained, says "what on earth are in these boxes?" But I am keeping them hoping someday he will return. Now my 18-year-old son, a student in chemistry at Wittenberg College, takes it and keeps...
...Jan Garrigue Masaryk, son of Czechoslovakia's founder and its former Minister to Great Britain, now one of the many men without a country, bitterly told University of California students: "They operated on us at Munich and without an anesthetic. Then that man comes into the hospital and rapes us. To make a complete job of it, he then extracts the gold from our teeth...
Northwest chose the light-weight (4 oz.), nose-gripping oxygen masks invented by grey-haired Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and two other doctors of the Mayo Clinic and already used to cure and prevent seasickness (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week, after demonstrating the oxygen sys tem in an overweather flight of four hours and 50 minutes from Minneapolis to Boston with nine passengers, Chief Pilot Mai Freeburg showed Northwest's new flying wrinkle to Boston and Manhattan scientists and newsmen...
...Josiah Hayden is head of the Charles Hayden Foundation, one of the richest in the U. S. It was founded by his bachelor brother, Wall Street Financier Charles Hayden, who, when he died two years ago, left his fortune to "rear a nobler race of men" (TIME, Jan...