University of Illinois Plans Nation’s Largest Aviation Program
The University of Illinois will open an airport in November and launch a broad aviation education and research program. The plan covers aircraft production, airport design, aviation law, and medical and agricultural aviation studies, with special aeronautics degrees possible.
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Theodore Limber
Chicago
University of Ilinois
Arthur Cutts Willard
Europe
University of Illinois Air Program
America
London
Paris
University of Illinois Advisory Board On
Aeronautics
Baldwin M. Woods
University of California
Bruce Uthus
Aviation Education Service
C.A.A
A. F. Bonnaire
U. S. Navy
United Air Lines
W.,’. Blanchard
Seth Products Division
General Motors Corp
L. R. Inwood
Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc
Col. A. D. Tuttle
Pigeon Cat and Bernadette Picture Shape Flannigan Tale
Japanese pigeon three legged cat and a Bernadette vision play roles in the day of George E. Flannigan of San Diego. He mistakes a cat for a danger, shoots a pigeon, survives a shell hit, then finds a vision picture on the wall. The cat vanishes but the picture travels with him as air routes expand globally.
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Guam
Bernadette and Marine Set
George E. Flannigan
San Diego
Flannigan
Bernadette
Begorra
Texan seeks share of estate in court dispute
Theodore T. Deel an 80 year old Texas miner and gambler filed suit in Los Angeles to claim real estate and other assets valued over 100000 from his sons John and Andrew. He says his wife Mattie Deel kept cash in her bustle and aided by a laundering mishap recovered 85000. she later carried 130000 in a money belt. Deel alleges she hid or gave away property and that her will cut him out despite their 1888 Ardmore Oklahoma marriage and claims of divorce.
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Los Angeles
Theodore T. Deel
Texas
Indian Territory
Mattie Deel
John
Andrew
Deel
Mattie
Ardmore
Okla
Jap ships hit at increasing rate in August
General Headquarters reports Far Eastern air force destroying or damaging ships in August at a pace exceeding five ships daily. attacks off Celebes destroyed a cruiser and several freighters while more than 140 escort craft were sunk or badly damaged. Nimitz notes Liberator strikes on Iwo Jima within 750 miles of Tokyo.
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General Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Far Eastern Air Force
Dutch Celebes
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Manado
Celebes
Halmahera
Pearl Harbor
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Seventh Army Air Force Liberators
Iwo Jima
Volcano Islands
Tokyo
Mixeco Migratory Help Says Contracts Broken
A Mexican migratory workers commission returning from the United States alleges their contracts were not fulfilled. They reported to Representative Francisco De P. Jiminez that they were contracted by the War Food Administration to work in Minnesota but were diverted elsewhere. Jiminez said he would raise the issue with the Labor Ministry.
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Mexico City
United States
Francisco de P. Jiminez
el Paso
War Food Administration
Minnesota
Chicago
Mexico
Jiminez
Ministry of Labor
Magnet Brake Slows High Speed Motor Fast
A new magnet brake can stop a one eighth horsepower motor turning 16 000 rpm in under six revolutions.
No Ordinary Name Will Do For This New Child
In Nogales Arizona on August 28 Tony Chamas Papatheodorokoumontourogianakopoulos and Nellie Chamas Papatheodorokoumontourogianakopoulos welcomed a seven pound girl born at a local hospital. The proud parents have not yet decided on a name for their daughter.
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Nogales
Ariz
Tony Chamas Papatheodorokoumontourogianakopoulos
America
Brewster Aeronautical Corp Accused of Inciting Navy Controversy
Washington Aug 26 Ralph A Bard undersecretary of the Navy said Brewster Aeronautical Corp has sought to incite a controversy between workers and the Navy, alleging provocative actions and tensions in the dispute over employment and defense contracts.
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Washington
Ralph A. Bard
Navy
Brewster Aeronautical Corp
Navy Secretary Denies Wage Adjustment Shortfall
Acting secretary of the Navy, signing as Fleet Secretary in Secretary Forrestal’s absence, disputes claims over missing payments on 1.5 million dollars in retroactive wage adjustments in a letter to Brewster president Preston Lockwood.
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Department
Preston Lockwood
Brewster
Navy
Forrestal
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Bobbie Brooks
Ing Center of
Taegon
East Congress Street Department Stores Inc
Far East Air Force
Mozelle
Beauty Shop
Second Ave
Fellphone
COX Commercial College
Stone
Mixeco Migratory Help
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Vogue
Harpers Bazaar
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ASK
Thrifties
Cohama
Manship
Rayons
California
Department Stores Inc
Karl
Martin's Drug Compar
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Gorham
Sienseelere
Gorham Sterling
Elmer E. Present
USS Pevet
Congress
Tool and Die Makers
The
United States Employment Service
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp
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