Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions safer, establish a standard wage; protect airmen from unjustifiable discharge, limit the hours of labor, promote the general well being of aircraft workers. Stirring them to this effort is their belief that airlines are thinking of cutting the pay of all classes of employes except officials. Both unionizers are friends of Col. Lindbergh...
...opening up trade routes north and south. . . . The Post Office Department has never operated at a profit. Why should aviation transportation be discriminated against-reducing an inevitable deficit?" The fact that Mr. Brown's Toledo law firm, Brown, Hahn & Sanger, has represented certain railroads, made some of the airmen suspect, in their bitterness, that Mr. Brown was consciously or unconsciously keeping the mail business safe for the railroads...
Feeling none too comfortable, the lookout reported to the radio man. The radio man laconically flashed the message ashore. Later on, the Coldwater's company discussed the matter at mess. It was no night, they agreed for airmen...
...obliging band. Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay at least 3,000 feet above cities and crowds. Concert-zooming pilots will get their licenses revoked...
These provide among themselves a manifold sales organization. To them airmen last week felt certain would soon be conjoined three plane manufacturers not yet entirely under Hoyt or Keys control...