Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money and service jealousy were at the root of the dispute. The Army, charging encroachment on its aerial sphere of coast defense, objected to the Navy's use of Federal funds to build land planes and operate them from land bases. The Navy insisted that, for tactical reasons, it needed a land-based force for sea patrol. The rivalry reached a climax in the Canal Zone and at Hawaii where each service maintains a large air fleet almost identical in character if not in purpose...
...hereafter the Army air service shall control all aerial operations from land bases and Navy aviation shall have control of all aerial operations attached to a fleet, including shore stations whose maintenance is necessary for operations connected with the fleet...
...eight years the Army &Navy joint board kept a sort of armed peace between the two flying services by a declaration that there was no substantial duplication between them. In 1929, however, the Army, jealous of the Navy's growing aerial land strength began agitating for a change. The Army's patent purpose was to get for itself the money the Navy was spending on land planes and land bases at Hampton Roads, San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal Zone by showing that their operation was not necessary to the fleet...
...America), returned to their jobs, starved & weary. The other 25% set about trying to resume the strike; 19 are under indictment for intimidation. Fort- night ago, several dynamite explosions boomed in plants of the Diamond Mine Co., Meador, Holt & Young Co. Then last week Providence cringed beneath its aerial attack. Next a trestle of the Illinois Central R. R. was dynamited; fire destroyed a $50,000 tipple in Providence Coal Co.'s No. 3 mine...
...coffee and water before responding to the welcoming committee. He disclaimed all concern in breaking the old record of 14 hr. 45 min., set by the Lindberghs on Easter Sunday. Said he: "I am not interested in records. It was purely a business demonstration of the possibilities of an aerial pony express. With relays of pilots and fast planes at intermediate points ... I think a schedule of 13 to 15 hrs. could be maintained. . . . The nonstop flight is of no value. Why load up with a lot of gas? ... I didn't really have the ship 'wide open...