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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Training airdromes will be built at 100 sites, mostly in wide-open western Canada. Trainers will be shipped to Canada from the other three countries, and in addition to pilots, some 100,000 mechanics, riggers, engine fitters, etc., etc., will be taught in expanded schools of Canada's youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Meantime Canada's air industry, too, will be spurred and expanded. Canada will build bodies into which will go U. S. or British engines. Head of Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd., a company formed to parcel out contracts among its six affiliates, is Paul Fleetford Sise, no airman but chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

The Royal Air Force turned out by Canada will be younger and older than it used to be-age limits have been dropped three years to 18, pushed up two years to 27. What used to be a ten-month elementary course has been telescoped into 16 weeks. (Many of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Normally the male spermatozoon is what determines the sex of the offspring. If the spermatozoon has a male-determining chromosome pattern in its nucleus, the sex will be male; if not, female. Since there was no spermatozoon in the case of the fatherless rabbit, therefore no male-determining pattern, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pincogenesis | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Naturally a swarm of newshawks, callous to the delicate distinctions of science, bore down on Dr. Pincus to find out how soon mammalian parthenogenesis could be applied to humans. The scientist dodged these embarrassing queries. A spokesman for him huffed: "Dr. Pincus' work will make possible certain manipulations and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pincogenesis | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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