Flying, Volume 6Flying Association at the Office of the Aero Club of America., 1917 |
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Aerial Coast Patrol Aero Club aeronauticos aeronautics Air Service Aircraft Production Board Alan Alberto Santos-Dumont Allies anti-aircraft Army and Navy Augustus Post Aviation School Aviation Section aviators Avord bars battleplanes biplane bombs British Broadway camp Capt Captain carried Chairman Charles Chicago Club of America Coast Patrol Unit Commander Committee Curtiss JN defense dirigibles enemy engine equipped Fabricantes feet field fire fleet flight flying boats Flying Corps France French George German Government guns Hawley Henry Woodhouse John kite balloons Lafayette land Lewis gun Lieut machines Magneto manufacturers miles military National officers operations organization Pan-American Aeronautic Peary pilot planes possible President raids Rear Admiral Robert Royal Flying Corps seaplanes Secretary ships Signal Corps speed Sperry squadron station steel Sturtevant submarine Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation thousands tion torpedo torpedoplane Washington weight William wing wireless Wise Wood York City Zeppelin
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Page 282 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and .all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 299 - ... great temptation of the present price of cotton and helping, helping upon a great scale, to feed the nation and the peoples everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their national duty. The Government of the United States and the governments of the several States stand ready to co-operate. They will. do. everything possible to assist farmers in securing an adequate supply of seed, an adequate...
Page 601 - O ye, the wise who think, the wise who reign, From growing commerce loose her latest chain, And let the fair white-wing'd peacemaker fly To happy havens under all the sky, And mix the seasons and the golden hours ; Till each man find his own in all men's good, And all men work in noble brotherhood...
Page 327 - Till each man finds his own in all men's good, And all men work in noble brotherhood, Breaking their mailed fleets and armed towers, And ruling by obeying Nature's powers, And gathering all the fruits of peace and crown'd with all her flowers.
Page 299 - Thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands, of men otherwise liable to military service will of right and of necessity be excused from that service and assigned to the fundamental, sustaining work of the fields and factories and mines, and they will be as much part of the great patriotic forces of the nation as the men under fire.
Page 153 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Page 282 - Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Page 298 - It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farm, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever, and that they must be more economically managed and better adapted to the particular requirements of our task than they have been...
Page 299 - Let me suggest also that every one who creates or cultivates a garden helps and helps greatly to solve the problem of the feeding of the nations and that every housewife who practices strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the nation. This is the time for America to correct her unpardonable fault of wastefulness and extravagance. Let every man and every woman assume the duty of careful, provident use and expenditure as a public duty, as a dictate of patriotism which no one can...
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