Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Getting the troops out of the trenches was statesmanship's task in the last decade. Getting the U. S. out of businesses into which the War forced it has been a task which President Coolidge has set himself. Congress changed the latter, last spring, to facilitate getting the U. S. out of the shipping business, and President Coolidge appointed new men to the Shipping Board-men not enamored of government operation. Since these changes, the Shipping Board has met to consider its duty. Last week it voted to sell the three large merchant fleets remaining under U. S. ownership...
...year-old War veteran, pilot of bombers and pursuit planes, was a member of the victorious 1926 Schneider Cup team. Major Carlo P. Delprete accompanied Commander Francesco de Pinedo on his tour of the Americas in 1927. No tyros, these two airmen chose a thick-winged Savoia-Marchetti monoplane, set out to break the endurance record won for the U. S. by Stinson and Haldeman. They remained in the air 58 hours and 34 minutes, bringing another major record to Italy...
Dictator Mussolini, eager for records, frowned upon trans-Atlantic hops. To Record-Holders Ferrarin and Delprete, however, he could not refuse permission to attempt the long and difficult flight from the mainland of Europe to South America. Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine had set the airline distance record at 3,911 miles with their flight from Roosevelt Field (N. Y.) to Eisleben, Germany. The distance from Rome to Brazil, by any calculation, is over 4,000 miles. Ferrarin and Delprete took off from Monticelio Flying Field, Rome, last week, in the same single-motored Savoia-Marchetti...
...following the precedent set several years ago by Belgium, is expected to put the trophy back in competition...
Last week, Polish and U. S. pilots complained. Poles, employed by the commercial Aerolot Co., demanded higher wages and, when their demands were refused, set a precedent for air pilots by going on strike. U. S. assistant pilots on the "model airway" between Los Angeles and San Francisco found their new duties beneath the dignity of flying men. Their duties: cooking and serving buffet luncheons for passengers, Pullman porter service for dusty topcoats and hats. They grumbled, did not strike...