Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between Brooklyn, N. Y. and Honolulu, Hawaii, lie some 5.500 miles of land and sea. All that Ben Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky...
...Air Ministry decided to purchase from the U. S. 250 fighting planes, in addition to the 400 ordered last summer. Cost of the 650: about...
...conditions were bad enough. For almost a week France had refused admittance to all but a selected few. Wounded soldiers, civilians injured in air raids had been turned back. There were no hospital facilities, on the Catalonian side not even the most primitive medical attention. Piled up opposite Le Perthus was a mass of suffering humanity that sprawled all over the roads, even covered the fields...
...French Chamber of Deputies echoed with cries of "Long Live Roosevelt!" and "Vive I'Amerique!" after Air Minister Guy La Chambre, explaining the recent purchase of 600 warplanes in the U. S., paid this tribute: "I take this opportunity of thanking the great American democracy and its leader, President Roosevelt, who has realized that in serving France he is serving peace...
...three weeks ago told British housewives to keep at least a week's supply of food on hand. He also let it be known that special steps, of an unspecified nature, were being taken to insure the continuity of Britain's water supplies in case of air attacks...