Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain intends to turn out some 3,000 new R. A. F. officers each month, and if real air war starts, 36,000 a year will be none too many for replacement. That the cramped, foggy British Isles are no place to train fliers was suggested by casualty figures released last week: killed in action, 122; killed in training...
...groups at Kaiserslautern, where seven squadrons balked. They, apparently, did not relish the receptions the French in their Curtisses had been extending. This week the French General Staff reported the engagement of 27 Nazi fighters by nine French fighters in which one-third of the Nazis were shot down, none of the French...
Organization. Elliott Roosevelt himself holds no office in TBS, says he has none of his own money in it. TBS has thus far sold $350,000 worth of stock at $175 a share, most of it to Publisher Elzey Roberts of the St. Louis Star-Times, and his brother John; H. J. Brennen, owner of two Pittsburgh stations; David Baird of Manhattan. TBS's president is John T. Adams, onetime adman who prettified Lydia Pinkham's preparations for U. S. networks...
Cats, said Dr. Charles Arthur Slanetz, pathologist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at the Medical Center, are sometimes used for laboratory work on diet, diabetes and drugs. But none of the cats in the college comes from Alexander's alleys. All cats are bought from laboratory animal houses which supply with each purchase a family history and a listing of the animal's age, behavior, eating habits. Alexander, continued Dr. Slanetz, undersold his competitors, for high-class cat prices range from $1.25 to $1.50, depending on size...
Last week, like none but the greatest of white papers, the Courier had a war correspondent in France. He was a onetime Chicago postal clerk named Reno Walter Merguson, who fought with the U. S. Army in World War I, stayed on in Paris after the War as a tourist guide. He used to drive Negro travelers over the battlefields in an old automobile, send in items about them to the Courier. Presently Editor Vann gave him a full-time job as the Courier's European correspondent...