Word: ziff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aeronautics, William B. Ziff's aviation monthly published in Chicago, recently printed the idea as a corollary of Col. William Mitchell's revived demand for a Department of Aeronautics (TIME. June 10). The National Aviation Academy might be located at some midcontinent point remote from possible boundary invasions. To it Congressmen might nominate cadets who would get a four-year training in mechanics, piloting, tactics, strategy. Graduates would be able to move in war as an independent force, instead of as auxiliaries to Army or Navy groups...
Publisher Ziff, Editor Harley W. Mitchell and Contributor-Col. Mitchell* know, however, that the Secretaries of the various Government departments which now have aeronautic subdivisions, are not opposing an eventual Department of Aeronautics or a National Aviation Academy...