Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legion, last summer banned U. S. Army Air Corps planes and personnel from non-military exhibitions, that is, from flying at fairs, civic celebrations, etc. Sole exception: American Legion conventions. Last week Mr. Johnson proudly watched 200 army planes cavort above the Legion's parade in Los Angeles. Next day Mr. Johnson's fellow Legionnaire, Chief of Air Corps Oscar Westover, having directed the Legion air show, took off from March Field for Lockheed Airport at Burbank, Calif. Arriving there, the piloting general skimmed across the field to test the wind, headed back for a landing. Watchers...
...plump, semibald Andre Kostelanetz was No. 1 U. S. air traveler. He made weekly round-trip flights between New York and Los Angeles, in New York conducted his Chesterfield broadcasts, in Hollywood directed cinemusic for and wooed Coloratura Lily Pons. In 1937 he repeated the schedule, and last June the pair were married. As might be expected they quickly tired of a groundling honeymoon...
...airlines. Ironic angle was that American Airlines, which last week showed the way for future interchange of air services, had only last year successfully opposed the plan of United Air Lines and Western Air Express to fly each other's equipment-United Mainliners from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, W. A. E.'s ships to Chicago-as a convenience to passengers who otherwise had to be routed out of sleeper berths at unearthly hours to change planes. Reason: such a pooling would have let unfranchised United ships into American-T. W. A.-monopolized Los Angeles...
...Los Angeles last week celebrated the homecoming of Douglas Gorce Corrigan, who few months before left a workaday mechanic's job to flivver off into the sky, blarneyed his way to Dublin and back and became the most fabulous escapist of his time. Back down from the sky, he came, after a triumphal tour of 44 cheering cities, looking as modest as Lindbergh, when he stepped out of his little ship at Glendale airport...
...part of its sport program, the game received its biggest boost. Today there are some 5,000,000 players (men and tomboys) and 200,000 teams (sponsored by churches, movie stars, saloons, banks) with names ranging from Slapsie Maxie's Curvacious Cuties to Bank of America Bankerettes. In Los Angeles there are 9,000 Softball clubs within a hundred miles of Wrigley Field (1,000 of them are women's teams...