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Both the army and the navy used Curtis' machines. During World War I, the Curtis factories in Hammondsport built the famous Jenny (JN-4) training planes and liberty engines. At the peak of the war, Curtis was supplying military planes to Great Britain and Russia as well as to the United States. After the war ended, his plane, The Wasp, established new records for speed, rate of climb, and altitude. He built a series of flying boats for the navy and the first airplane to cross the Atlantic. In 1929, the Curtis Aeroplane and Engine Company merged with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, forming the Curtis-Wright Corporation. Glenn, Curtis, served as one of the directors of new company and Orville Wright, was a consultant. The bitter rivalry between the Wnghts and Curtis, pioneers in aviation, thus came to an end. The following year, Glenn Curtis died.
136 FLYING GRANDMOTHER An Interview with Theda Beningfleld In Raytown, Missouri, there lives a woman named Theda Beningifeld. She has a husband, two children, seven grandchildren and a busy life. What makes this grandmother so unusual? When I first started flying, many members of the family thought I had completely lost my mind. I didn't start to fly until I was 48 years old. In the ten years I have been flying, I got a private licence, a commercial licence and an instructor's classification. After that first 30-minute lesson, I didn't know whether I would ever get a licence, but still I wondered whether I could solo that airplane; whether I would really have enough courage, enough knowledge and ability. When the big day came and the instructor said, "All right, you can solo," would I really be able to go off myself or would I just grab him around the neck and say, "Don't leave me!"? Mrs. Beningifeld has part-time employment in a doctor's office. Her job gives her the opportunity to work with people. She also likes. to keep busy by doing work for charity organisations. Well, yes, I am the president of the Union City Mission Auxiliary1 The Union City Mission has been gathering clothes and food for needy people in the Kansas City area for 50 years. Well, back to flying.... I feel that aviation is a real challenging thing; it is a real fun thing. I tell people that if they want to learn to fly they can learn to fly, if they really want to do it. The goal that we all have as flight instructors, of course, is making a flight safe. And the thing that will be uppermost will be the decisions that the trainees will have to make: decisions about weather distances deciding that they are familiar with their aircraft. Every time I go into the air, there is something that I learn, and I do not believe that when you are flying, you can sit back and let some of these things pass by. You just have to keep learning. And then I just think, well, how wonderful it is that someone came up with this airplane that would put me up here in the air, because it is a beautiful thing to fly, really.
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PROPRIETARY SCHOOLS Proprietary schools are privately owned vocational schools. That is, they offer practical training which will help students get a well-paying job. They are interested most in satisfying their customers - the students. To remain in business they must give students what they want to learn - at a fair price. The students themselves normally pay for the cost of the training. Generally, the training lasts "from six months to one year. In the United States, proprietary schools number about 10,000 and that number is growing to meet increasing needs. Courses in proprietary schools include training not only in business and technical skills but also in self-improvement such as painting, crafts, speech and physical development. At present, the field with the most students is cosmetology, with nearly 3,000 schools in operation. Teachers in proprietary schools generally work longer hours for less pay than in public schools. However, the quality of instruction is high because teachers work closely with students. Some schools ask students to evaluate the teachers. Proprietary schools emphasize applied rather than theoretical knowledge. They often are willing to experiment with new ideas in their teaching. The teachers themselves come from the real world of work. Most of them are professionals and they know what the students will need on the job. Courses are given in short segments. This helps to give the students a sense of accomplishment. In other words, they achieve what they want in a short time. Automated education is used with success and team teaching is common. The student, of course, is interested in the result. Will he get a good job? Generally, most of them do and this can be counted as success in education!
138 VEGETARIANISM Good food is a celebration of life, but it seems strange to me that in order to live we have to kill. That is why I do not eat meat. I see no need for killing. There are increasing numbers of people who, like myself, no longer want to eat meat, fish and poultry and are turning to a vegetarian diet. Certainly we do not have to kill to feed ourselves. All the proteins, vitamins and minerals that we need in order to live and to be healthy arc easily available in the endless variety of plant life, and in those gifts animals give us painlessly, such as milk and eggs. Many of us are turning to vegetarianism in our own interests, which are the interests of all human beings, because millions of people on this planet are dying of hunger, but food which could keep them alive is used for animals which grow fat only to be killed and eaten by the richer nations of the world. In recent years, dramatic new reasons have made people think again about what they eat. More and more foods have now become the products of factories rather than farms. Chemicals '9improve" the appearance of foods and make them keep longer. Animals and poultry are treated with sex hormones to make them grow faster - and, of course, to increase profits. The results are unknown dangers to human consumers, including the possibility of various types of cancer. Industrial societies have pumped poisonous chemicals into rivers and seas. Eat fish and you eat these poisons, too... But this is a book about pleasure, not pollution. I hope that even if you are still in the habit of eating meat and fish, you will try some of the different ways and means of cooking here. You might even find yourself happily becoming a vegetarian, too. People often ask me, puzzled, how vegetarians eat. Their puzzlement is real. They think of their own meals without the meat and think "how awful". But in fact their meals are pretty awful anyway: dull, unimaginative, boring. Even in ‘good’ cooking, variety is usually found only in the main course, usually meat or fish. Things like salads, vegetables and brea& are of little importance and are the same every time. This standard meal is served wish little change from day to day and week to week. Soup, 'main course', salad, dessert: this is the unchanging order of the standard meal. The first thing to do when thinking of vegetarian cooking is to forget these steryotyped ideas. Vegetarian cookery is rich and varied, full of many marvellous dishes with a character all their own. A vegetarian meal does not have to have a 'main course': it can be made up of several equally important courses, or of several dishes served at the same time.
139 THE OZONE LAYER The end of the human race cannot be put before the interests of aerosol manufacturers. This important decision was reached by the top brains of twenty-four countries in Montreal this September. It was a historic decision, because, for the first time, governments from different countries all over the world put aside political and national differences to ensure that pollution does not bring disaster on the multinational companies which are causing ft. In 1985, a hole the size of the United States appeared in the ozone layer above the Antarctic. Without the ozone layer, more UV-B rays from the sun penetrate the atmosphere with various inconvenient results, such as a massive increase in skin cancers, reduce crop productivity, depletion of fish stocks, and climate changes resulting in floods and famine. The scientists rushed to the conclusion, over the next few years, that the depletion of the ozone layer was due to chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, which are used in such things as aerosols, hamburger packaging and refrigerators. Most scientists agree that a reduction of 85 per cent in CFC emissions is needed immediately - just to stabilise conditions. In Montreal, however, the top brains from twenty-four countries decided on a reduction of only 50 per cent, and then not until 1998. Moreover, they were talking only about consumption of CFCs. In fact, they've actually agreed to let the big companies increase their production of CFCs. I'm sorry, I'd better repeat that. Faced with the extinction of the human race by depletion of the ozone layer owing to the manufacture of CFCs, the top brains of twenty-four countries agreed to increase the production of CFCs. But who cares? As the Secretary of the Interior of the United States put it, 'So what if the ozone layer does go? We'll all just have to wear hats, dark glasses and barrier cream whenever we go out-of-doors.'
140 A HOLIDAY BROCHURE This is an extract from the holiday brochure of a travel agency organising tours from Great Britain to Russia. HOW TO BOOK Our staff at the Intourist Moscow Ltd. will be pleased to help you choose your holiday, make your reservation and give you any general advice you may need. It is advisable to telephone our Reservations Dept. 01-580 1221 to be sure that the holiday is not fully reserved. Booki should be accompanied by a deposit of £35 per person, plus £11 (but £ 20 for cross-country skiing) for insurance. When we receive your booking form and deposit, a confirmation will be sent to you. You will get this letter, which will finalize all the arrangements, within 7 days. TRAVEL DOCUMENTS As soon as your account is fully paid, your air tickets, travel documents, tourist visa, customs declaration form and luggage labels will be sent to you by first class post approximately 7-10 days before departure. REDUCTIONS FOR CHIILDREN For children accommodated in their parents' room, the following reductions apply: Aged 2-11 years included (at time of travel) - 25 % Children under 2 years of age -50 % (transportation cost only, food costs to be paid direct to restaurant) The extra accommodation consists of a folding bed in the parents' room. We regret that it is not possible to provide cots for very young children. Yüklə 0,88 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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