Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proceeding apace toward a 5,550-plane Army Air Corps, the War Department last week placed its biggest peacetime orders ($85,000,000) for about 1,000 aircraft, an unannounced number of engines...
...Boeing Aircraft Co., $8,090,000, to Consolidated Aircraft Corp., $8,485,000, for improved four-engine "flying fortresses...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. $4,845,000 for two-engined, 420-m.p.h. interceptor pursuits (for defense against high-flying bombers...
...Love & Kisses." These record flights, and the whole birthday program, were a masterful stroke of publicity for the Corps. Ably assisting in the stroke was Lauren ("Deac") Lyman, oldtime New York Times air correspondent who now works for United Aircraft, good friend of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Newsmen still found lacking, however, publicity for one phase of Air Corps activity more dramatic than any other. Lest it seem too warlike, the Corps is not allowed by the War Department to publicize the extreme accuracy which its bombers have attained. They now can guarantee to smack their targets as precisely from...
...against air raids and if Germany starts bombing London the one thing that might worry Berlin is a retaliatory raid. When the first "raid" occurred last week thousands of Berliners were hurrying home from work. Red flares, black flags, and roped-off streets indicated places that were "hit." Anti-aircraft guns blazed at imaginary targets with blank shells while firemen sprayed make-believe fires and first-aid crews bandaged the sound arms and legs of placarded "wounded." The tests were intended to last five days, but sleep-loving Berliners found one night of alarums and excursions more than enough. Officials...