Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhode Island: Horace G. Killam, Jr. Providence, Rhode Island. Rochester, New York: Richard M. Bloch, Rochester and Howard A. Joos, Rochester. Rocky Mountain, Colorado: David R. Howard, Boulder, Colorado. St. Louis: Joseph M. Leahey, St. Louis. Washington, District of Columbia: Henry H. Dearing, Jr., Shaker Heights, Ohio. Western Pennsylvania: Edmund J. Steytler, Pittsburgh, and Robert G. Tyson, Pittsburgh. Harvard Graduates living in Milton: John L. Cady, Milton...
...What about chances for a race with some western crews...
...airmen's Mahan is General Giulio Douhet, an Italian artilleryman who survived War I to propound the doctrine that air power is the decisive power. The Douhet theory holds that major wars can be won, and won quickly (while ground troops are mobilized as they are on the Western Front), by unrestricted mass destruction poured on civilian populations, their communications and utilities, from thousands of airplanes carrying hundreds of tons of bombs. So far War II has seen...
...sooner had U. S. troops dug in on the Western Front in World War I than they started a newspaper. The Stars & Stripes made fun of lice and mud, pricked the vanity of many a martinet, nurtured young journalists like Alexander Woollcott, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, who were later to bloom luxuriantly in Manhattan's literary gardens...
Unlike topflight executives of other major U. S. airlines, 35-year-old Jack Frye of Transcontinental & Western Air and his 43-year-old executive vice president Paul Ernest Richter, are tough, practical airlines pilots. Burly Jack Frye bats up & down the line through all kinds of weather in his Northrop Gamma, usually testing new equipment as he flies. Wiry Paul Richter regularly gets into a captain's grey uniform and shoves a passenger-laden DC-3 over a scheduled...