Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow the powerful Comintern station went on the air with Popular Front declarations that "Chamberlain has saved the ruling classes at the expense of the toiling masses. . . . France has ceased to be a great power." In France, the General Confederation of Labor, representing some 3.000,000 trade unionists, announced its "acceptance of the Munich accords for suspending the course to war." but expressed fear that "these accords, limited to some powers, may create a preface to the Constitution of a Four-Power-Pact condemned by public opinion of all democratic countries'' (see p. 19). Paris-Soir, with...
...English, German, French and Italian. Nobody needed to speak Czech. The Big Four, in accordance with the original concept of 1933, were about to constitute themselves the arbiters of Europe, excluding from their councils Czechoslovakia, the League and the Soviet Union. M. Daladier and Mr. Chamberlain, arriving separately by air, were met by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
From London last week came an indication of how deeply dreaded and how widely expected is war from the air. Officials of the London Zoo ordered deep pits dug under the Zoo gardens to store the more valuable animals, gave keepers rifles to shoot any that might escape from bomb-damaged cages, ordered all poisonous snake; and spiders killed immediately war began
While Ferebee's entourage-his head caddie, 18-year-old Art Cashetta (who carried clubs for 300 of the 600 holes), his personal physician, Dr. Charles B. Alexander (who fed him orange juice and water), his financial backer, rich Air Conditioner Reuben Trane (who had 3,000 autographed golf balls handed out en route advertising his business), his good-natured better, fat Fred Tuerk-all made merry on Broadway, Super Marathoner Ferebee went to bed, put a sign on his door: "Don't open until Christmas...
...more than a decade air line pilots have been flying in and out of the obstructed, 147-acre Washington Airport with their fingers crossed. During that time, while Congress after Congress has passed the buck on the question of providing an adequate airport for the nation's capital, option-mongers have been busily cornering most available sites. One they could not corner, however, was that proposed at Gravelly Point, because 1) it lies largely beneath the Potomac, and 2) most of the 250 acres of contiguous land is government-controlled. Last year Franklin Roosevelt urgently recommended development of Gravelly...