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Aviation. To the pilot, aviation may mean a job, a salary. To the pedestrian, it may mean dark specks droning toward the horizon. To the entrepreneur, it means stocks, incorporations, earnings, mergers, an infant industry for skilled hands to shape. One such shaping took form last week with the incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William...
...just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield...
...June 30: Pedestrian-rescuers Sora & Van Dongen lost...
Whether or not New York City between Times Square and the Grand Central will lend itself readily to being dug up for such a worthy cause, the statistics offered in the case can do nothing but good. While it might be difficult for each waiting pedestrian to recognize which portion of the 100,000 days is his contribution, he can still be comforted that he is doing his part to make pedestrians into a leisure class. There should be comfort in the thought for the opportunity to have 100,000 days a year to waste is not one that falls...
...Queen who sat beside Alice and yelled, "Faster, faster!" sits beside most automobile drivers of to-day and her call is no less potent because it is a silent one. The theory, if not the practice, of the idea that travel in the street is the right of the pedestrian and the privilege of the motorist has often been iterated. In an entire nation of increasingly nimble broken field runners there will be found few more ardent supporters of this civic principle than those members of Harvard College who are daily obliged to cross Harvard Square...