Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bennett Field made the city's official air terminal, even sponsored in 1933 a scheme for a metropolitan airport on Governor's Island, which would have nestled under the city's towering skyline and been suicidal to passengers and pilots. A year later he leased the land for what was to become a more practical project: to enlarge North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay, Queens...
...mind was a vast plan for a combined land and seaplane terminal far outstripping anything existing in the U. S. Last week, first with a spade and then at the controls of a steam shovel, he gouged out the first scoopful of sand in his $13,000,000 project. The hiss of steam as he inexpertly spilled half the giant spoon's earth near the waiting truck was not less searingly exultant than the blast that came from the swart, little Mayor of New York: "This will be to Newark as Kirsten Flagstad is to Gypsy Rose...
...present 105 acres lie on the south shore of Flushing Bay, eight miles by road northeast of Grand Central Station (in whose shadow most commercial airlines have their midcity passenger terminals), across the East River and the new Tri-Borough Bridge. Although $2,358,000 went into the land, runways, hangars, seaplane ramps, beacons & facilities for servicing visiting planes when Curtiss-Wright built North Beach in 1929. only schools, private flyers and taxis patronized the field. No line made it a terminus. In 1934 the City of New York agreed to buy it for $1,500,000, leased the property...
Died. Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 58, onetime British Army officer, author of The Men I Killed, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, etc.; at Walton-on-Thames, England. General Crozier's experiences in the wars, from which he drew his books, made him a famed, bitter pacifist. Last week as he lay dying, Army officials were soundly berating him because in his latest book, The Men I Killed, he said that in the World War British officers shot their own and Portuguese soldiers to make them fight...
Drainage of U. S. breeding lands had another effect. It left those regions completely vulnerable to floods and droughts. Flood and drought control measures now-being executed with CCC and WPA labor are, fortunately for sportsmen, ideal for restoring duck grounds, and vice versa. Principal engineering problem is to impound and regulate waters in rivers, lakes, marshes. Equally important is the planting of trees to help prevent erosion. Thus in the past three years 200 duck refuges have been created on previously useless land. Last year, for the first year in many, more ducks returned to the breeding grounds than...