Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board in 1927. The first five years of that program involved an expenditure of $725,000,000 (almost as much as this one's entire 15-year budget), and a total expenditure of $2,900,000.000. It proposed building 25 cruisers, nine destroyer-leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers. Congress whittled it down to the terms of the 15-cruiser bill...
...Majesty's Government to maintain in Palestine the present armed force of two battalions of infantry, two squadrons of aircraft, four sections of armored cars, these being deemed sufficient to prevent the recurrence of such disorders as those in Palestine last year when Jews and Arabs lost a total of 241 lives (TIME...
Fisher (General Motors), Walter Percy Chrysler, Alvan Macauley (Packard), Du Bois Young (Hupp), William J. McAneeny (Hudson), Edward S. Evans (Detroit Aircraft); 3) got a promise of 1,000 "rotating" jobs per week from big merchants; 4) rotated 400 jobless per day on municipal construction; 5) used the schools to collect clothes to help the needy...
...irritate both British editors and the British Foreign Office last week. The Manchester Guardian accused the Hoover Administration of "taking sides" in Brazil's civil war. When British newshawks pecked around the Foreign Office, inquiring whether British firms were going to get any orders from Brazil for aircraft and munitions they were told a number of things "not for publication." Cabled New York Times Correspondent Ferdinand Kuhn...
...week: Major E. H. Brainard became C. W. Flying Service president; William F. Carey turned his presidency of C.W. Airports Corp. over to Charles W. Loos and returned to his railroading; Bruce Gardner Leighton became vice president, with responsibility for sales, of C.W. Corp.'s three subsidiaries ?Keystone Aircraft Corp., Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor...