Education: Scholar's Wings

"Due to crowded conditions and in the interests of safety," President Wyatte Dawson Guthrie of Long Island's Roosevelt Field fortnight ago ordered no more flying there in training planes weighing less than 1,500 pounds. His order provoked a crisis in four flying schools which were training 135 college boys and girls as part of the Civil Aeronautics Board's nationwide pilot-training program for U. S. youth. Safair Inc. promptly grabbed National Airport at nearby Hicksville for its 60 students. The other three schools pooled their resources, graded, reconditioned, and in record time christened the...

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