Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real week-end scare when alarming news came over the border that the Reich had been massing more than 200,000 troops around Lake Constance, to the north, and near the Swiss eastern frontier. Switzerland's border guard was doubled, border roads and bridges were mined and anti-aircraft guns were in position in Basel, Zurich and other big cities. To allay popular fears the Swiss Federal Council appealed for calm, issued a statement that "rumors concerning an immediate menace to Switzerland, whether direct or indirect, are without foundation...
...total active militia is 4,034 men. Her coastal defense guns date from before the War, and are so small that enemy battleships could anchor unharmed 30,000 yards off Halifax or Vancouver and demolish either city. Worst of all, Canada has at most two anti-aircraft guns...
...most spectacular pool operators of Wall Street's New Era was tense, redheaded Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, onetime theatre ticket agent. Same week in 1935 that SEC started to drive him off the Exchange on charges of rigging Bellanca Aircraft stock, Broker Meehan bought a $130,000 seat for his son William as a 21st birthday present. Last week the Exchange announced that a seat had been sold for $60,000 to Mike Meehan's youngest son, Joseph, 21, a senior at Fordham University. If the sale is approved, Joseph Meehan will become the Exchange's youngest...
HARTFORD, Connecticut--A $14,000,000 order for one thousand airplane engines has been placed with the Pratt and Whitney division of the United Aircraft Corporation by the French Government, it was learned tonight...
...followed Nazi accusations of the "deplorable mistreatment" of German men and women in the Bromberg section of the Polish Corridor and an announcement in Warsaw that "baby bonds" would be floated among the people to raise $228,000,000 for air force and anti-aircraft expansion...