Word: nc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the control cabin of Condor NC 12354 at Newark Airport one afternoon last week climbed Pilot Clyde Hoi-brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
...established M.I.T.'s first aeronautical engineering course, took charge of airplane construction & design for the Navy. During and after the war the Navy and M.I.T. continued to shuttle him back & forth; the Navy made him a Commander, M.I.T. made him a D. Sc. He designed the famed NC flying ships, one of which was the first airplane to cross the Atlantic, and the Shenandoah, first helium-filled dirigible. For three years he was Assistant Naval Attache in London, Berlin, Rome. When the Shenandoah's crash was laid to lack of weather information, Dr. Hunsaker promptly began work...
...University A Reds defeated Newton Centre, 3 to 2: A. W. Patterson '32 defeated Stuart (NC) by default: D. M. Frame '32 defeated Rice (NC), 15-9, 16-14, 18-14; Bray (NC) defeated H. V. Blaxter '32, 15-12, 15-12, 13-18, 12-15, 15-11; Cooke (NC) defeated J. W. Appel '32, 15-11, 12-15, 15-12, 15-11; J. G. Cornish '33 defeated Dupertius (NC...
Singles--Grant (NC) defeated Breese, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1; Hines (NC) defeated Hill, 6-1, 7-9, 6-4; Ingraham (H) defeated Yeomans, 6-4, 6-2; Hendlin (NC) defeated Frame, 9-7, 6-4; Wright (NC) defeated Patterson, 10-8, 2-6, 6-3; Graham (NC) defeated Tower...
Doubles--Grant and Hines (NC) defeated Hill and Ingraham, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Breese and Frame (H) defeated Yeomans and Wright (NC) defeated Patterson, 10-8, 2-6, feated Patterson and Thompson...