Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid by Leftist Spain's onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, who has since been prevented from criticizing the regime which replaced him. Its contents, largely suppressed by the Leftist Government's cable censors last month, packed all the more punch because Socialist Baron had come out to report last week that in Leftist Spain there is much "dissatisfaction with forcing Francisco Largo Caballero out of the Govern-ment last May. He is by far the most popular political leader among the Spanish masses, and they resent the Communist campaign against...
When the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 was approved by Congress last summer it established a U. S. Maritime Commission, empowered it to manage U. S. shipping and to investigate and report upon the shape of things to come. Fortnight ago, Commission Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy presented such a reckoning (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week he made another report, not on sea ships but on the relation of sea ships to airships. To many a landlubber the second report may seem like a Utopian dream, except that it also bears the earmarks of Joe Kennedy's hard-headed eagerness...
Clippers. The first fact it calls attention to is the safety and reliability of over-ocean travel-30 transatlantic seaplane test flights made in 1937, and 7,000,000 passenger miles flown over the Pacific. Then the report plunges into the economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost...
Dirigibles. For non-stop schedules to Japan, Australia, South America and Africa, the report recommends the economic superiority of helium-filled dirigibles carrying 200 passengers, estimates their cost at $4,000,000 each. Of their safety it says, "While their size makes them vulnerable in high winds when making ground contacts (which are no hardship whatever to airplanes-rather, an advantage), nevertheless, the impossibility of slowing an airplane down brings with it a certain element of risk not present in the dirigible...
Planners. Credit for this ultra-modern document under Chairman Kennedy's signature goes to spade worker Robert Emerson Lees, onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting...