Word: aero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the futurist school of Italian poetry. After telling his audience that "the Italian is hated by the masculine world, but adored by the feminine world," and proposing the formation of a corporation for the exportation of Italian love, Futurist Marinetti produced a few of his "Aero-Poems." The Aero-Song of the Bombing Plane said...
...Aero-Song of Gasoline: "Thousands desire thee, 0 Pipeline, but to me alone thou givest thy gasoline kisses...
...Transport, was tossed a baronetage and for equally inexplicable reasons named to a new post as Minister of Works and Public Buildings, charged with the eventual rebuilding of London. In as new Minister of Transport went sporty Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, holder of the Royal Aero Club's No. 1 flying certificate, twice Parliamentary Secretary to the Transport Ministry, who is known around his greyhound racing tracks (in 1937 they paid 40% dividends) as "Brab...
Sirs: ... I did my bit in the last war. I had a year in France with the First Aero Squadron, A. E. F. My son is now approaching military age, as is the son of my brother. And when I say "to hell with the risk!-the time to do something is now," I am not actuated by a "nothing-to-lose" situation...
RALPH E. DE CASTRO (Distinguished Service Cross) ex-1st Lieut., 1st Aero Squadron...