...Peter Simons Abstract In 1944 the National Flying Farmers organized at Stillwater, Oklahoma. The organization took advantage of aviation's wartime growth to promote flight as an integral part of agricultural life that would modernize production, break down social barriers, and give farmers greater...

... wealth. Washington’s pre-war oil embargo severely crippled military and civilian transport services throughout the war, and Japan’s conversion of cane sugar into fuel alcohol and butane for aviation fuel failed to generate successful outcomes. Also, as the Pacific War eliminated cotton imports from...

... development of agricultural aviation in New Zealand. There was certainly an awareness of the widespread and manifold agri? cultural use of aircraft in the United States. There were repeated musings on the enormous potential locally, particularly in spreading fertilizer on hill-country?a process known...

... deployed DDT for the first time in field operations in the midst of a typhus epidemic inNaples, Italy. A year laterMarine aviators began flyingDDT missions in thePacific with a breaker-bar spray apparatus first tested at theBanana River Naval Air Station on Florida's east coast. Daniel contends...

... created by resource extraction to build tanks (contributor Kent Curtis), acres of soybean farms plowed under to make way for newly constructed aviation factories (Thomas Robertson and Christopher W. Wells), or military base construction and expansion of oil refining along the Gulf Coast that led...

... Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007) Robert Mark Spaulding, Osthandel and Ostpolitik; German Foreign Trade Policies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer (Providence, RI: Berghahn, 1997), 312-13 3 "The Politics of Productivity...

... Kansas," Kansas Connections (newsletter from the Kansas University Medical Center’s Rural Health Education and Services office) (Fall2001): 6 -7 "Resident Mixes Practice of Medicine with Piloting," Kansas Connections (Spring1999): 6 Michael W. Babcock , The Role of General Aviation...

... Wilson was left to choose the site of the facilities.13 Thus, tucked into an expansive law that included, among other things, the reorganization of us armed forces and the creation of the aviation section of the signal Corps of the army, which eventually would become the air Force, was a provision...

... on March 9, and a week later League representatives from across Minnesota met in their first statewide convention in St. Paul. While there they nominated Charles A. Lindbergh, a former congressman from Little Falls in the neighboring Morrison County and the father of the future aviator, to take on Governor...