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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Female Pilots. Amelia Earhart last week received a license to pilot transports. Of the 40 U. S. female pilots only she, Ruth R. Nichols of Rye, N. Y., Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie of Memphis, Tenn., and Lady Mary Heath of Manhattan have transport qualifications. Only Miss Omlie seems serious in this business. She is planning a flight this year. Miss Earhart makes a gratifying income by writing on flying and appearing at aviation shows. Lady Heath also appears professionally at the shows. Recently she started a concern to import planes. Miss Nichols, rich, is now flying about...
Three weeks ago the worst crash in U. S. air experience occurred at Newark, N. J. A Ford transport operated by Colonial Airways as a sightseeing bus smashed into a freight car. Thirteen passengers were killed instantly. A 14th died quickly. Only the pilot, Lou Foote, remains, bashed up, in a Newark hospital (TIME, March...
...directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters who wanted to know what the N. G. L. meant, exactly, by announcing that the Bremen and Europa would be "five-day boats."* Goaded, Herr Stimming barked: "I mean that the Bremen and the Europa will cross from America to England within five times 24 hours ! They will reach Germany within six times 24 hours after they...
...Williamsburg Savings Bank is the tallest building in Brooklyn, N. Y. Its deposits total $225,000,000. Passers-by were puzzled, last week, to see, high on the outer wall, a sculptured grotesque of a peterman (professional argot for bank- robber) with his dark lantern. Why should a bank thus honor its immemorial enemy? Further along was the moral answer, an other image of the peterman - behind the bars
...East View Penitentiary, East View, N. Y., last week arrived Hugh Finn, 55, to begin a six-months' sentence after his 49th conviction. Convict Finn, no minatory criminal, has served sentences only for minor offenses like malicious mischief, petit larceny, abusive language, disorderly conduct...