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... (though the countries of Central Europe and the Baltic may be the global pioneers of m- commerce due to their wireless networks). E-commerce is le... ...idemiological policies (not to mention the laws related to air travel and aviation). The list is interminable. Once a law is enacted - which refle...

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...ring shapes of silvered steel. At the same time a new impetus was given to aviation by the relatively enormous power for weight of the atomic engine, ... ...uld our Great Departed Stand in the Rain?’ He learnt the rather ath- letic aviation of those days at the University grounds at 39 H G Wells Sydenham,... ...l qualification and a certain precocious cor- pulence that handicapped his aviation indicated the infan- try of the line as his sphere of training. Th... ...engineer- ing arm, concerned with motor transport, motor-bicycle scouting, aviation, and the like. 40 The World Set Free No first-class intelligence ... ...ut he had reckoned without a proper estimate either of the new strategy of aviation or of the possibilities of atomic en- ergy that Holsten had opened... ...nd inconclusive contentment with little things. Candide was but one of the pioneers of a litera- 149 H G Wells ture of uneasy complaint that was pres...

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... before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which is a miss ... ...t in 1908, when flying was still almost incredible, M. Ader published his “Aviation Militaire.” Well, that was eight years ago, and men have been figh... ... an experiment. The British are too conservative and scepti- cal to be the pioneers in any such enterprise. The Russians have been too poor in the nec...

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...et Champ Perry in the post-office—and de- cided that in the history of the pioneers was the panacea for Gopher Prairie, for all of America. We have lo... ...et unimagined how, turn it back to simplicity? She herself knew two of the pioneers: the Perrys. Champ Perry was the buyer at the grain-elevator. He w... ...he bosses of Gopher Prairie.” She smiled at him, and the Perrys faded, the pioneers faded, till they were but daguerreotypes in a black walnut cupboar... ...inclair Lewis “How? I’ve failed at everything: the Thanatopsis, par- ties, pioneers, city hall, Guy and Vida. But— It doesn’t matter! I’m not trying t... ...’m to go to Washing- ton as a dollar a year man for the government, in the aviation motor section, and tell them how much I don’t know about carbureto... ...omed, white-bloused, hot-necked, spectacled matrons—the Mothers in Israel, pioneers and friends of Mrs. Champ Perry—waved their palm-leaf fans in a st...

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..., who had travelled and hunted; explorers, keen mo- torists, interested in aviation, active in army organisation. Good, brown-faced stuff they were, b... ...ng after the polling, and claimed that the Conservatives had been ever the pioneers in sanely bold constructive projects. I came up to London with a w...

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... newspapers interviewed him on prohibi- tion, Ireland, unemployment, naval aviation, the rate of exchange, tea-drinking versus whisky-drinking, the ps... ...dignity of those Victorian financiers who ruled the generation between the pioneers and the brisk “sales-engineers” and created a somber oligarchy by ...

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...affected my reputation unfavourably, and produced in the few discour- aged pioneers of those days a quite touching gratitude. Over my mantel as I writ... ...e sudden downfalls are the least pleasant and most dangerous experience in aviation. They exact a tiring vigilance. Over lake or sea, in sunshine, wit... ...inating. It has been made by odd and irregular means by trading companies, pioneers, explorers, unauthorised seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centr... ... project as dream-like to- day as electric lighting, electric traction, or aviation would have been in the year 1850. In 1850 a man reasonably con- ve... ...reater supply of able educated men, versa- tile men capable of engines, of aviation, of invention, of lead- ing and initiative. We need more laborator... ...and a great array of new colleges, a much readier access to instruction in aviation and military and naval practice. And if we are to have national se...