Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn one morning last week, bronzed, begoggled Ab Jenkins, 50-year-old mayor of Salt Lake City, strapped a crash helmet under his grease-smeared jowls, stepped into his airplane-motored speed car, set out on his favorite tour: around a 12½-mile circle on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats...
...hour later. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, 40-year-old Samuel Chang was a director of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, and agency superintendent of Owner Starr's Asia Life Insurance Co. (Chang's wife, a graduate of the University of Utah, is the daughter of a Chinese doctor in Salt Lake City.) He was also a friend of New York Times Correspondent Hallett Abend...
...training program for 1940-41. Bob Hinckley took his first airplane ride with pioneer German aviatrix Melli Beese when he was touring Europe as a Mormon missionary. Expelled from Germany because his gospel was believed to be disturbing the peace, he returned to the U. S. to found the Utah-Pacific Airlines and begin preaching another: the future of aviation. To Mr. Hinckley, a "formidable and salutary deterrent to air attack on this hemisphere" will be the 45,000 products of his program whom he hopes to turn out next year...
...PERRY Salt Lake City, Utah...
...recent years heard more about civil liberties than about the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee. Senators Robert Marion La Follette (Wisconsin) and Elbert Duncan Thomas (Utah) spent $200,000 and four years studying the seamy side of U. S. industry. They uncovered a grubby array of labor spies, gunmen, strikebreakers, provocateurs of labor strife, propagandists, munitionists-and industrialists who bought these seamy services...