Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chicago sped Civil Aeronautics Bu-reaumen to investigate the third fatal crash on U. S. airliners since Aug. 30, after a flawless 17 months in which no airline passenger was killed. The cause of Trip 21's crash was a matter for public hearing, laboratory inspection of her engines, props and other remains. First news reports were that ice brought her down. United denied this report, pointed out that if Trip 21 was taking on ice. Pilot Scott would have reported it as airline rules prescribe, pointed out, too, that many other runs came in around the same time...
...crash put Franklin Roosevelt's new CAB on a hotter spot than ever. Thirteen of the airlines' perfect 17 months were flown under the supervision of the old Civil Aeronautics Authority. By Presidential order, CAA was taken from its independent status last May, made a bureau under the Department of Commerce. Part of the order abolished the independent Air Safety Board. Last week, while many an airman talked behind his hand of disorder and dissension in the new bureau. Senator Pat McCarran once again trumpeted the same charge from a Nevada mountaintop. "Chaos and confusion" in CAB, cried...
...successor to II Duce, but he rated as an administrator rather than a soldier. In his stead, Mussolini appointed lean, hard-boiled General Ettore Bastico, 64, a veteran of the 1911 war with Turkey in which the islands were acquired, veteran also of World War I, Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, in which his "volunteers" captured Santander. Cut off from home by the British blockade out of Crete, General Bastico's new berth will not be cushy...
...Dale's father settled in Monticello, Miss, before the Civil War, edited a newspaper, taught Joe how to set type. At 17 Joe started the Lawrence County Press. That was in 1888, when few of Lawrence County's present citizens had been born. Sometimes the crops were good, and Joe Dale prospered. Sometimes they were not so good, and Editor Dale did not press his hungry subscribers. He had been in business seven years when his plant burned. Joe started over. Then he got married, raised three sons (one is a country editor in northern Mississippi), three daughters...
Meanwhile, the Journal & American and the American Legion demanded that Brooklyn College's alleged Communists be dismissed, under a law (enacted last year) barring from civil-service employment those who advocate overthrow of the Government by force. But Investigator Windels and President Gideonse agreed that a teacher could not be dismissed merely for membership in the Communist Party, could be dismissed for "improper" political activity (e.g., classroom propaganda for Communism...