Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspection confirmed her commander's theory of how the Squalus was flooded. One of her two air-intake valves tested at Portsmouth closed in good order. But the other stuck, closed only after repeated efforts, indicating how death had flooded the Squalus...
...loss of first-line combat planes in the first months of fighting is expected by the U. S. Air Corps if ever its new armada flies to war.* Such appalling losses put a premium upon a vast reserve of pilots. Last week the non-military Civil Aeronautics Authority took a long step to increase that reserve: it certified 220 U. S. colleges and universities for participation in its pilot-training program, prepared to name still more to share $5,675,000 voted by Congress for schooling 11,000 new fliers this year...
...trainees are all civilians, most are collegians. They will be taught to fly by commercial air schools, at a cost to the U. S. of $290 to $310 per student. When they graduate, they will be far from qualified as military pilots, but most of them should rate private pilots' licenses (allowing them to fly themselves and passengers for fun, do no flying for hire). But C. A. A.'s fledglings, with the rudiments of flying will be far better material for the Army and Navy air corps than total greenhorns...
Timed to the minute came a story from Berlin: Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini would propose peace. German divisions released from the Polish front, together with the bulk of the German air force, would be sent to the German-Italian frontier-prepared to move across Italy with Italian troops if France refused peace; prepared to move against Italy if Italy refused to offer...
Dropping his role as France's smartest bartender, 45-year-old World War I Veteran Georges Carpentier, who lasted three rounds with Jack Dempsey in Jersey City in 1921, rejoined the air service...