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...current recruiting ads, the U.S. Air Force boasts that each new cadet will get training worth $35,000. This is $10,000 more than it cost to train a flyer for World...
Tough, canny Mr. Cohu, World War I flyer and ex-board chairman of Northrop Aircraft Inc., lost no time in swinging his new broom-and his ax. He spent so much time flying from one TWA office to another that a TWA underling quipped: "The loneliest place in the company is the president's office in Kansas City...
Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...
Pilot Martin, a 26-year-old ex-Navy flyer, confessed to an almost incredible tale of carelessness and poor judgment. He had taken off from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
...first organized on January 19, 1938, when 400 service employees met to form a group independent of the A.F. of L., which at that time had organized a majority of the dining hall workers and was moving in on other University workers. The C.I.O. also had taken a flyer at unionizing Harvard employees, but made little progress...