Word: aero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French aircraft maker, returned from Moscow to announce: "With ten times as many workers as has France, the Soviet factories are producing 20 times as many airplanes, motors and accessories as in France. I should estimate that there are 200,000 men employed in the two laboratories, the five aero-motor factories and the four principal aircraft factories. . . . Annual production of fully equipped airplanes is of the order of 5,000. . . . The technique is not very modern but it is to the point. The works directors are engineers of incontestable merit...
Lately the U. S. magazine Aero Digest, which is usually accurate, has run two articles on Soviet aviation which estimate that its military strength is at least 3,500 planes and possibly much higher.* Some 50,000 miles of airlines, mostly unaided by radio, cover all of Russia proper and much of Siberia. Last year these lines transported 200,000 passengers and 7,500 tons of mail against U. S. figures of 1,146,138 and 7,689. Osoaviakhim (civil aviation society) has 7,000,000 members, most of whom make parachute jumps for amusement. Some 600,000 Soviet children...
Thus, like the airplane, chemicals emerged from the War as a major military instrument. With the post-War development of fast, long-range bombing planes, the prospect of aero-gas attack on cities has become a horrid spectre held up to palpitating civilians by excited publicists. Military experts in chemical warfare cry out to a man that this spectre has been grossly exaggerated...
...Dana Xenophon Bible of Nebraska and Major Lawrence McCeney (Biff) Jones of Army had a number of things in common. They coached highly respected football teams about to engage each other, they had the same birth date, October 8, and both had served as lieutenants in separate aero squadrons with the A. E. F. The final score was Army 13, Nebraska 3. In 1935 Nebraska's bald-headed grid tutor evened the score. His Cornhuskers trampled Major Jones Sooners of Oklahoma two years...
Last summer Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurated a 1,000-mile airline up the rugged coast of Norway to Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world (TIME, June 8). Last week, two Sikorsky 543 amphibians left Connecticut to fly to South America to inaugurate a 1,000-mile airline down the rugged coast of Chile to Magallenes, southernmost port in the world...