Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protection of buildings against bomb splinters Britain now has on hand 127,000,000 sandbags. For civilian protection the Government has accumulated 50,000,000 ordinary gas masks and 940,000 special masks for men who will be on outdoor duty even during air raids. Britain's population is 44,500,000. Since millions in the rural sections will probably never need a gas mask, many a Briton in London and other big cities will have a mask not only at home but at the office...
That Germany knows well that the stiffness of the British and French backbone is inverse to British fear of Nazi might was underlined last week by Air Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Nazi No. 2. A World War ace himself, Marshal Goring boasted that if the September crisis had resulted in a war, "a hell, an inferno would have been waiting for the enemy, a quick blow and his complete destruction." Continued Marshal Goring...
...deceive ourselves. The political situation is disordered. Moreover, the armament fever has gripped most countries of the world. Thus further expansion of the German Air Force is necessary. . . . The German Air Force is the terror of our opponents and it will remain...
When the earth began to rumble and mongrel dogs to moan in little Tonoyama-machi, suburb of Osaka, one bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was filled with a noise louder than thunder, with a light brighter than the sun, with flying bits of steel and brick far more deadly than the debris which falls during earthquakes. The people knew that the earthquake was manmade, and that its epicentre was the great Army ammunition depot near...
...freedom, he did not find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...