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Last week, with airline operators at their wits' ends to find equipment to handle their traffic, American Aviation dragged the question into the open: "The other day an airline finally obtained a 14-passenger Lockheed Lodestar that had been in the hands of the Army. . . . The log showed that the airplane had been used an average of 21 minutes a day over a period of 14 months! Less than one-twentieth of the use that would have been obtained in commercial service. . . . And there is no wastage in Army transport equipment...
Loaded with 80 pounds of gadgets for safety, science and publicity, he climbed into a Lockheed Lodestar one day last week and went upstairs-far above the 'chutists' attic. Bundled in a heavy leather suit, he carried two chutes, oxygen equipment, stop watches, an altimeter, a barograph (to record changes in altitude), a small radio transmitter, pneumograph (to record the action of his lungs...
After five days in Palm Beach the Duchess of Windsor, who in 1936 was willing to leave England but not by air, stepped with her Duke aboard Harold Vanderbilt's commodious Lockheed Lodestar, flew back to the Bahamas on her first flight through...
...choice was easy. Football has been Shaughnessy's lodestar since the day he went out for the Minnesota team in 1911. For 18 years before he succeeded Amos Alonzo Stagg at Chicago, he coached football at Tulane and Loyola of the South, put both colleges on the football map. Last winter, when Stanford asked him to come coach, Clark Shaughnessy said...
...full professorship, and none need be tagged as destined to be denied it. Under such a policy, disappointments when they come would be gradual, and would be founded at least on permanence rather than prediction. We cannot believe that the avoidance of such disappointments ought to be the lodestar of a tenure system...