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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parachute Jump is an offshoot of a practical idea, employed since 1932 by the Soviet Union to help train military and civilian fliers. Today, at Hightstown, N. J.'s military training towers, the Jump corresponds to the first step in teaching aviators to bail out. At Hightstown it is called "captive drop with seat"; next comes "captive drop with harness"; there after, free drops without safety cables...
...Bullitt, home for a week ostensibly to have a lame shoulder treated, more likely to prime the President against an anticipated September Crisis abroad. Secretary of State Hull last week held conferences on the Tientsin situation but took no action, issued no statements (see p. 21). > Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera called to thank the President for U. S. courtesies upon the death of Mexico's air ace, Francisco Sarabia (TIME, June 19). The President seized the opportunity to ask Mexico to speed up its settlement of U. S. oil expropriation claims...
Whoa Bessel! Holt your bosses. Wood you Alter your plans so there'll be no Stahl'n around? You'd Lovett? Oh Kaye but no fair to Heckel and no Hazen. Make it even Stevens...
Died. Mrs. Constance Willis Campbell, 32, wife of Negro Cartoonist Elmer Simms Campbell, who draws svelte white nudes; by her own hand (shooting), in Elmsford, N...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. police found Driver Louis Bolter frozen to death inside his own ice cream truck...