Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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International Aircraft & Airways, founded in 1935 by an Englishman, a Russian and an American, had an ambitious idea behind it: world transport must govern the world. As the power of I. A. & A. grew, transcending governments, the idea became a fact, and for 50 years the world lived under an international pax aeronautica. Real and acknowledged world rulers of those days were the twelve Directors of I. A. & A. Armament was permitted only to the I. A. police. Popular government, individual liberty were anachronisms in this sternly centralized system. And though peace & prosperity were everywhere, here & there the old superstition...
...Naval Science and Tactics, yesterday to a CRIMSON representative, discussing the newly commissioned "treaty cruiser" which is now open to the public Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the Boston Navy Yard. The ship is being inspected by members of the Naval Science department. "There are eight five inch anti-aircraft guns which can shoot 78-pound shells eight miles up into the air, and eight 50-calibre anti-aircraft machine game. If by any chance as airplane should get close, the anti-machine guns would fire a stream of 2500 bullets per minute in barrage form...
...Traveling to Newport News, Mrs. Hoover cracked a bottle of grapejuice over the prow of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier (13,500 tons with superstructure to starboard of landing table). Declared she: "I christen thee Ranger." Said she later: "I shall always have a soft spot in my heart for the Navy because its blue-jackets once saved the life of my husband and myself from Oriental bullets and knives...
...capital lately went into Granville Bros, (new name: Granville Aircraft Corp.). Alfred D. Chandler, longtime backer of Giuseppe Bellanca who quit him following a quarrel last year, turned to Granville. With Mr. Chandler went former Bellanca Vice President William B. Hurlburt...
...afternoon last week at Wayne County Airport, near Detroit, three officials of Stinson Aircraft Corp. flew a new type Stinson tri-motor. The three were Chief Engineer Arthur Saxon, 29, who had been eight years with Stinson, helped design its first plane; his assistant, Samuel Benson; and Chief Test Pilot Owen Pinaire. With two tons of lead ballast in the cabin, they wanted to try the plane's stability...