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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Totally blind flying, solely by the aid of navigating instruments, became an accomplished fact for the first time last week. Lieutenant James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, 33, "best Army Flyer," did it, at Mitchel Field, L. I. Thereby he completed eleven months' experiments for which the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for...
Three new instruments developed† during the eleven months' work made Lieutenant Doolittle's work possible. Those instruments: 1) Visual radio direction finder consisted of two reeds vibrating in consonance with a new short range radio beacon at Mitchel Field. When the plane is directly in the path...
She called herself "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like." Author Asbury calls her "the most industrious meddler and busy-body that even the Middle West, hotbed of the bizarre and the fanatical, has ever produced." However that may be...
Carry smashed a cigar-stand in Coney Island, acted in Elizabeth, N. J., in Hatchetation (originally Ten Nights in a Bar-room), lectured in a burlesque show in Springfield, Mass. Hearing President McKinley was shot, she lost favor by saying "I have no sympathy for this friend of the brewers...
"In each of these eras lawyers turned to comparative law to give concrete content to ideas of what the law should be . . . It is not an accident that comparative law, after decades of quiescence, is taking on new life in this country. If we are to proceed wisely in creative...