Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Queen Mary did not answer Rockford's Social Morality Department right away. But London's newspapers undertook to do so for her. In a special article intended for Rockford consumption, the Daily Express headlined: "YES! THE QUEEN DOES SMOKE...
Appointed. James M. Schoonmaker Jr., onetime chief engineer of Dayton-Wright Co. (aircraft): to be president of General Aviation Corp. and Fokker Aircraft Corp., succeeding Harris M. Hanshue who resigned to devote full time to Western Air Express. Also resigned: General Aviation Corp.'s vice president and general manager William T. Whalen to rejoin General Motors...
...were released for civil works (TIME, Jan. 27). Of 88 companies engaged in commercial operations, ten are operating scheduled services over 6,984 mi. of airways. Last year Canada's air lines carried 86,242 paying passengers, 430,636 Ib. of mail, 3,903,908 Ib. of freight and express, flew...
...ends in fire. Unless the pilot can extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...
...will use the pouch for valuable express shipments. One drawback to adoption of the bag by the Post Office is its weight?20 Ib. as compared to the present 6-lb. type...