Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plenty of howling against purchases abroad is expected from both British labor and aircraft manufacturers, and only the fact that Parliament was not in session last week saved the Air Secretary from cries of ''Buy British" from the Opposition. Anti-Chamberlain Conservative M. P.s are expected to add their complaints that foreign purchases indicate the continued failure of the Air Ministry to solve the problem by home production, as they believe possible...
...soothing syrup to spoon out to the Government's air rearmament critics this week, the Air Secretary received assurance last week from Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield-who ended his two-year nonparticipation in air rearmament when Lord Swinton was dropped as Air Secretary month ago-that he will erect a huge airframe plant on the outskirts of Birmingham, designed for mass production of 5,000 planes a year. The factory, expected to be in operation in six months, will turn out Britain's newly developed "interceptor fighters," which will be fitted with Rolls-Royce motors. Running...
Feature race was the $2,500 Hollywood Premiere Handicap which was won by Airman William Edward Boeing's Air Chute. Many of the day's racing fans, however, failed to watch the race. They were busy inspecting the $2,500,000 plant, its 315 acres, its stalls for 1,250 horses. It was all that they expected it to be. In the infield, three lakes in tiers gurgled at one another by means of connecting waterfalls, squadrons of swans were kept in line by a female swanherd dressed in yellow satin. A three-piece swing band furnished...
...ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step, wake boiling behind. At 80 miles she skimmed from the waves, into the air. Thirty-eight minutes later Pilot Allen brought her down in Seattle's sheltered Lake Washington. Said he, pleased as Punch: "She's a great ship . . . sweet as a peach...
...fangled tricycle, or nosewheel, landing gear were firm.† DC-4 glistened in the sun, its four 1.400 horsepower motors thumping idly. In climbed Pilot Carl Cover. The great ship surged forward, took off in less than twelve seconds. On the ground, Douglas craftsmen threw their hats in the air, slapped each other on the back. In the air DC-4 stayed for an hour and a half, then landed gently where it had started...