Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dayton, Ohio...
Thirty years ago a young War Department clerk named John Mullaney signed an order for a flying machine built by two brothers Wright, Orville and Wilbur, out in Dayton, Ohio. The contraption was specified to go 40 m.p.h. with a 25-h.p., four-cylinder engine.* This Wright machine was not only the first plane bought by the U S.: it was the winged germ of the world's first military flying force. At 54 Clerk Mullaney is still on the job and so is the force for which he bought Wright's ship. In celebrating August...
Governor John W. Bricker having cleared the way for him, Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft last week, put his hand to his brow, looked into the future (see cut) and issued his written "consent" to be designated Ohio's favorite son for 1940. Wrote he: ". . . The unpleasant job which lies before the next President of the United States is such that no sensible man could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States...
...This is not going to be easy or pleasant. As to my own position, the work of Senator from Ohio is extremely interesting and I prefer it to any other office. I will not run away from a harder job, but whether I am a candidate for any other office is entirely up to the Republicans of Ohio...
...maternal mortality rate (69.5 per 100,000 live births) was higher than that of any large European country except Scotland. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Scott C. Runnels, secretary of the Hospital Obstetric Society of Ohio, announced that, according to the latest statistics, the U. S. maternal mortality rate had dropped 22% in the period from 1930 to 1937. Reason: more women go to hospitals for delivery now than ever before. However, added Dr. Runnels, the maternal death rate is still appallingly high in many sections of the U. S. One fourth of maternal...