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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 12, 1937.
“AEROPLANE” OR
"AIRPLANE?
Aeronautical Society Uses Banned Word
£16,000,000 PROFIT BY TWO FIRMS
Record
fits for the past year are two giant British indus- es; Imperial Chemical In- Lever Brothers, whose: combined share and debenture capitals
trial dustrie
Recipients of an official notice total £140,000,000. from the Royal Aeronautical Soc-the first time topped £9,000,000; Lever Imperial Chemical gross profits for
iety were surprised to see in it the Brothers' profits went over £7,000,000, word "air-plane," a word which had for the first time. The combined total previously been barred from the is thus over £16,000,000, conversation of all concerned with bute-£11,500,000 in
The two companies together distri- dividends; their flying machines.
Previous notices used the word "aeroplane," and so' conformed to the usage of constructors, opera- tors and pilots.
combined assets
Jch $174,000,000.
WHOLESALE PRICES
"Airplane" has been popular in
London, To-day- America for a long time, however, The Board of Trade Index of whole- and has been used regularly by higher than in March. The aggregate sale prices in April was 1.5 per cent. certain newspapers in England. It rise since May of the first year is 18.5 is given as the correct term in the, per cent.-British Wireless. American National Advisory Com- mittee for “Aeronautics' report ... on. "Nomenclature, for Aeronautics.” It was strongly advocated in England before the war, but was not used by those who have anything to do with flying.
2,300 PER CENT. PROFIT
"I buy pieces of lace at a store at 3d. each. I go round the houses and ask 5s. or 68. a piece and get
and The point was raised with the lit." President of the Royal Aeronautical This statements was alleged to Society, Mr. H. E. Wimperis. He have been made by a Beckenham said that in his Presidential ad-man who was fined 5s. at Croydon dress on April 26 he would use the Police Court recently for hawking word "airplane" and he added that without a licence.
he believed it would be bound to A constable said the man told come into general use. He had al-him he was ways believed it to be the better hand-made lace. term.
seeking orders for
Pilots, however, were unanimous- ly in favour of "aeroplane," and had
The Emile Miguet, 30,600 tons, the some strong comments
largest oil tanker flying the French to make mag, was launched at Dunkirk. about the other term.
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