Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food for him, and treated him as a man and a brother.'' One may assume that only the excessive modesty of Sir Wallis Budge-a sort of Lindbergh among Egyptologists-kept him from setting down the fact that for many years he personally contributed sixpence a week to buy tidbits of sole for Mike...
...every hour of night flying. To the individual flyer, $9,000 is no great income. But to the operating companies the salary item in the aggregate is enormous. The companies, as they became efficient business organizations, wanted to regularize their salaries, reduce them. None dared until last week. Then Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, which operates two score flying fields in all parts of the U. S., pioneered. The new Curtiss-Wright pay schedule offers as maximum yearly bases: $3,600 to chief pilots; $3,000 to long experienced pilots, plus $3 per hour for single-motored ships, $4 per hour...
Everywhere in the U. S. the movement to unionize aviation formally is now active. Pilots and mechanics assemble in hangars and lunch wagons to mull over grievances. Dale ("'Red") Jackson travels here and there advocating unions (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week he was in Miami to agitate at the all-American air meet. At Muskogee, Okla., the local men last week received a first union charter from the American Federation of Labor...
...Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then one of the transport planes crunched through the ice on Lake St. Clair in five feet of water, had to be hauled ashore and dried off. Eighteen flyers completed the first lap of their...
...check landmarks with recorded rivers and railroads, these were recent methods of town identification for lost pilots. Then the Guggenheim Fund stepped in and asked towns, corporations and individuals (notably postmasters) to label their localities. More than 8,000 places now have proper roof markings, the Fund reported last week. Foremost among the town labelers were oil companies, who welcome customers from above or below...