Radar Saved Britain Will Remodel Industry
WNU Service in Washington outlines radar’s origins and early wartime role from 1932 to Pearl Harbor. It notes radar’s use in detecting aircraft, guiding night battles, and aiding tactical and strategic air forces, with potential in commercial aviation for collision avoidance and safe landings in fog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Lockard
Pearl Harbor
Chief of Air Staff
England
Tacs
Tactical Air Force
Normandy
Europe
D-Day
1St Tactical Air Force
Holland
Atlantic
North Pole
Skyways
Postwar air freight to reach every farmer and community
Walter A. Shead reports on Civil Aeronautics administration filings for peacetime civilian aviation. Projects include flying ambulances, armored airships for valuables, parcel and auto delivery, parachute pickup, helicopter taxis, sightseeing flights, and feeder lines. Many applicants are veterans awaiting discharge hoping to start local and regional air services across California Nevada New England North Carolina Michigan Texas and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Department of Commerce
James Walker Gase
Sutter Creek
Calif
Navy
Case
California
Nevada
Taxi
Truman era Washington recovers activity as troops and lobbyists arrive
Washington buzzes with returning soldiers, officers, and veterans as housing and food strain the capital. The White House scene shifts to Mayflower Hotel power centers while Truman aides quarrel over wiretapping, troop demobilization, and political maneuvering ahead of 1948 elections.
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District of Columbia
House
White House
Germany
Europe
Potomac
G.L Joes
G.I. Jones
Washington
Truman
Missouri Boys
Bob Hannegan
Pauley
Southern
California
Ed Pauley
Capitol
Harry Truman
Senate
Harry Vaughan
Battery K
Mayflower Hotel
Welburn Mayock
Committee
George Killiam
National Committee
Killiam
Hannegan
CIO
Roosevelt
Congress
Connecticut Avenue
Beck Fegui
Clint Anderson
Anderson
Barbs and Blanks in a 1940s Personal Column
A quirky personal column muses on letters and laughter, note of mail timing and cultural quirks. It cites a French paper on preferences, hints at a home front shortage, and mentions MetLife finding divorced or widowed adults can more easily find a new partner than single spinsters or bachelors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lassie
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Taxi Firms to Start Air Helicopter Service
A number of long established taxi firms seek general air taxi by helicopter. John P Carey and Joe Ferrants Airdrome Transport offer services to airports and film stars. William Edward Hann plans sightseeing flights to Grand Canyon and other monuments. Over 600 applications for air transport services on file with the Civil Aeronautics board as of June, with more expected after V J Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Air Transport Command
Army
Shannon’s
Fort Worth
Continental
U. S
W.C. Croy
Poplar Bluff
Julian Bondurant
Armored Motor Service
Memphis
France
H. I. Moul
Coastal Tank Lines, Inc
York
United States
Alaska
Canada
Mexico
T. P. Geddes
Automobile Air Freight Corporation of
Detroit
Great Lakes
Middlewest
Hecht Company, Inc
Washington, D. C
William Filene Sons Company
Boston
E. J McKeown
Producers Air Lines of
Toledo
Fish Airlines Corporation
Charles J. McGowan
Nord—Massez
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Frank Sawyers
Checker Taxi
John P Carey
Grand Central Cadillac Renting Corpora
Tion
LaGuardia
Airlines
New York
Joe Ferrant
William Edward Hann
Grand Canyon National Park
Bow Bridge National Monument
Utah
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Civil Aeronautics Board
Curious Claims And Quips From A Jumbled Mind Patch
A playful list of curious facts and misstatements spans topics from singing health to ancient figures. It mingles pop culture quips with bizarre trivia, noting certainties and contradictions with wry disbelief.
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Bankhage
RCA
Westchester County
Radar
Marvel
Solomon Islands
Davy Jones’ Locker
Willard Hotel
London
Royal Air Force
Hawaiian Islands
Joseph Lockard
Walter A. Shead
Los Angeles
Norsemen Air Transport Company
New England
John C.L. Adams
Panama
Cristobal
Balboa
Alberta
Angeline Harris
Rutherfordton
N. G
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Winifred Lucy Shefferly
Michigan
T. W Lanier
el Paso
French_paper
Sinatra
Patrick Henry
Verdi
Enrico Patrella
Patrella
Caligula
Buenos Aires
India
Mozart
Johnstown
Kalesnikoff
Kieff Hosp
Pelee
West Indian
Martinique
St. Pierre
Prof
Einstein
Napoleon
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