Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There had been, he was glad to say, "a very satisfactory increase in orders for land armaments, in particular light tanks and anti-aircraft equipment." He had a novelty to announce. The Whitehead Torpedo Co., a Vickers subsidiary, had just produced a new torpedo specially designed for firing from airplanes, and the Air Ministry was charmed with it. Striking back at uncomfortable exposés of the international armament makers. Sir Herbert cried...
...reason for doing so, but whether sufficient I don't know." Requested to identify the airlines which he had elsewhere asserted were purchasing inferior equipment from associated manufacturing companies, he named Eastern Air Transport (owned by North American Aviation, Inc.) and United Air Lines (owned by United Aircraft & Transport Corp.). Next day appeared Capt. Edward V. ("Eddie'') Rickenbacker, famed World War ace and oldtime automobile racer, now vice president of North American Aviation, Inc. When he finished a prepared statement defending the companies, he stood up and with hands in pockets, intoned: ". . . In fairness to our Chief...
...Senate passed (65-to-18) the House bill to build the U. S. Navy up to Treaty strength in seven years (TIME, Feb. 5). Cost: $750,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. Ships: one airplane carrier, 99,200 tons of destroyers (65), 35-530 tons of submarines (30). Aircraft: a number "commensurate with a Treaty navy." Author of the bill was Georgia's Carl Vinson. Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Washington's two Senators tacked on amendments, one to allow Pacific Coast shipyards to bid on the new ships with transportation costs considered, the other...
...Rentschler (United Aircraft...
...Senate Banking & Currency Committee a long and miscellaneous list of 555 air-stock sellers. Politicians and the Press 'made a big to-do over the fact that J. P. Morgan & Co., than which no organization has at present less political pull, had sold 4,500 shares of United Aircraft fortnight before the Feb. 9 annulment order...