Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America took off on a Saturday morning, amid intense public excitement. She chugged out to sea, sent four wireless messages (the first from aircraft) including one reporting that the kitten had jumped overboard and was rescued by a rope. A shifting wind drove the ship off her northeast course. The equilibrator bounced from wave to wave, threatened to wreck the ship. Early Tuesday morning, after traveling 1,008 mi., the America sighted a steamer which came alongside, took Capt. Wellman, crew & kitten aboard. The America vanished into the skies...
With a second great victory to his credit, Admiral Standley promptly proceeded toward a third. He pointed out that aircraft are just as necessary to a fleet as guns or ammunition, for his new ships he would need 1,184 new airplanes. Promptly the committee approved a bill to increase the Navy's air fleet from 1,000 to 2,184 planes...
...Wright had a good chance to teach their secretiveness to others. They went to Washington for a meeting of the executive committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, of which they are members. Laid before the committee was a complaint from the Navy and War Departments that secret aircraft developments submitted to the N.A.C.A. for research had leaked into the hands of foreign powers. Last week the committee undertook a "campaign" to plug the leak, began by refusing even to reveal what had already leaked...
Senator Black, as chief investigator, sent the Deeds testimony to the Treasury to be checked over for income tax purposes and then turned to another United Aircraft official to hear the same story on a larger scale...
...liquidated most of his holdings for $9,514,000. While "Chuck" Deeds's salary and bonus as secretary-treasurer and vice president had been comparatively modest, Vice Chairman Rentschler collected $1,585,544 in six years-the years during which the U. S. Government paid to United Aircraft's subsidiaries a total of $87,564,988 (half of which it got back from the public in air stamps) for mail contracts, engines, Army & Navy airplanes and equipment. He testified that in 1929 alone he had received from United Aircraft $431,544 in salary and bonuses, that...