Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the nimblest pursuit ship in the air. It was no two-bit order, but it was not big enough to give pleasure to Glenn Luther Martin. He had hoped to fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif. But the fact that he did not get the big order was not even a serious setback to Glenn Martin today. His $10,000.000 plant outside Baltimore had just delivered 117 B10 bombers to The Netherlands, was working on a ten-million dollar order...
Next day, while Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose went elephant riding in London Zoo back home, Their Majesties watched one of the remaining escort, the cruiser Southampton, in an anti-aircraft demonstration, peppering a black smoke shell cloud with hits that puffed white against it. Another day, and on the second anniversary of Their Majesties' coronation, the cruisers fired a 21-gun salute, and George issued the welcome order to "splice the main brace" (extra grog for all hands). Three hundred and fifty miles off Cape Race, 1,350 miles from Quebec, the Empress' experienced crew...
...hrer, on the other hand, ordered his aviators to try out a few of their latest tricks over Loyalist cities, but spared Germans the tedious life of the trenches. His fine-looking, neatly dressed, clean-shaven, well-behaved warriors were mostly staff officers, expert airplane technicians, artilIerymen and anti-aircraft gunners who stayed back of the lines and kept pretty much to themselves. There were probably never more than 10,000 of them in Spain at one time, but for two years they performed a service which neither Spaniards nor Italians were educated...
...carry on Dr. Willhelmy's research, the Navy assigned Lieutenant Raymond Andrew Lowry of the Dental Corps. Last week 32-year-old Dr. Lowry, now detailed to the aircraft carrier Yorktown, made a report to the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy which confirmed Dr. Will-helmy's findings, and offered a simpler remedy...
From the sprawling Consolidated Aircraft Corp. factory on Lindbergh Field a huge flying boat waddled down to land-locked San Diego Bay one day last week. In the bright California sun her slim wing looked absurdly frail, her huge hull with its upswept stern grotesquely fat. Nevertheless, her little band of professional observers knew they were watching a plane designed to be the last aerodynamic word...