Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried hard to conceal their excitement over an airplane being crated for shipment from East Hartford, Conn, last week. There was nothing extraordinary about the plane. It was a Vought Corsair of a year-old model, such as the U. S. Navy uses for observation, with interchangeable sea and land undercarriages. But its wings and fuselage bore the red-white-&-blue bull's eye insignia of the British Royal Air Force-hence the excitement. The British Air Ministry had bought the ship, presumably to test it as a sample of U. S. fighting...
...Abolition of aircraft carriers and of flying-decks on capital ships...
...stand for a sharp distinction between offensive and defensive naval weapons," said Admiral Nagano. "Our principle is to reduce the means of attack while strengthening the means of defense. . . . Aircraft carriers are the most offensive of all naval weapons because, by means of their planes, they can not only attack the coast but carry destruction far inland. . . . Japan and the United States are each other's good customers. I see no reason why-especially with the vast Pacific Ocean between us-any differences in our naval views should not be reconciled in a satisfactory manner...
...Britain would like to extend this ratio to all classes of naval weapons, thus keeping Japan permanently inferior. Last week Admiral Nagano flatly refused to talk ratios, invited U. S. and British citizens to ponder the type of naval weapon Japan wants all Great Powers to scrap. Obviously if aircraft carriers, long-range submarines and large-surface ships of maximum cruising radius were abolished, Japan could neither strike at the West nor be struck at. She would be left safe and supreme in the East, able to defend herself and to operate at short range against Asiatics...
...formed a third, "non-partisan" stockholders' committee. He too called for proxies. His committee, said the Governor, was best qualified to judge the merits of the controversy. It included Lessing Julius Rosenwald, potent vice board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., William Benson Mayo, onetime chief of Ford aircraft construction. President Howard Coonley of Boston's Walworth Co. (valves), three airline organizers. Promptly Mr. Cord piped up: "Ex-Governor Trumbull was one of the principals in the ... sale of Colonial Airways to the Aviation Corp. . . . His principal associate in this deal, John F. O'Ryan, is an officer and director...