Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voices of politicians grew loud in the land, crowding even swing off the air, radio listeners last week did not hear two opponents debating (but not broadcasting) with poise and dignity from one platform in Marietta, Ohio. Republican Robert Alphonso Taft and Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley had agreed, while fighting for the latter's Senate seat, to hold at least six debates in the good old Lincoln-Douglas tradition...
...With these in Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range of Gibraltar might have cut the British lifeline there, and Italy might have used her navy & air force to chop up the same lifeline at Suez and in the Mediterranean, although Mussolini & Franco might have done what Italy did in 1915, change sides for a fancy price to join Britain & France...
...Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Alexander Kirk, with whom Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh stayed in Moscow and who handled the arrangements, was suspected. Pravda charged that on the Lindberghs' return to England the Colonel told "guests of Lady Astor" that "Germany possesses such a strong air force it is capable of defeating the combined air fleets of England, France, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia...
...supposed to have affirmed, Pravda supplied a deposition signed by eleven leading Soviet airmen who called Charles Augustus Lindbergh a "stupid liar, a lackey and a flatterer of German Fascists." "According to information in the highest quarters in London, Paris and Prague," said the Soviet airmen, "the Soviet air fleet is quantitatively at least equal to the combined German and Japanese air forces and is qualitatively much superior...
Last week was National Air Travel Week, staged by U. S. airlines to get more of the U. S. citizenry up in the air. Impressive were carefully-staged transport flying exhibitions, but the most thrilling demonstration was not on the schedule...