Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard swim Harvard: Addison Love '33. W. S. deLima '31, and B. S. Wood '33; M. I. T.: Lutz and Thomson...
Relay Harvard: R. D. Fallon '33. W. R. Timken '33, C. B. Currier '32, B. S. Wood '33, W. S. deLima '31, and Frederick Ayer, II '34, alternate. M. I. T.: Teague, Thomson, Willman, and Lutz...
...only trial flight before the India take-off was in mild weather, was cut from 24 hr. to 16 hr. without Lord Thomson's knowledge?and resulted in a dead engine...
Inspector McWade's testimony threw into unhappy relief earlier references to Lord Thomson's apparent haste. Attorney General Sir William Allen Jowitt had cor respondence to show that the air minister was chafing to start by late September, be back by Oct. 16. One letter was quoted: "I must insist on the program for the India flight being adhered to, as I have made my plans accordingly." Observed Sir William...
...There probably is no doubt that Lord Thomson thought it would be a striking, dramatic feat to accomplish a flight to India [where he was to succeed Lord Irwin as viceroy] and come home in safety while the Imperial Conference was sitting." Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding said Lord Thomson had told him not to let his judgment be swayed by his (Lord Thomson's) eager ness to be off; but he showed a memorandum from Lord Thomson insisting upon a take-off early in October...