Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antonio. Texas traffic laws do not limit the length of moving rows of cars. In one huge serpentine column which stretched out to 65 miles long at a speed of 30-35 rn.p.h., the P. I. D.'s 1,180 supply trucks, passenger cars, motorcycles, reconnaissance cars, anti-aircraft trucks and baggage trailers roared over the 326 miles in record time...
...with a major foreign power, the U. S. would need a minimum of 1,000 merchant ships of all types. These are now available but they are old, and in certain categories there is serious shortage. There are only ten combination freight & passenger vessels which could be converted into aircraft carriers. The Navy thinks there should be at least 20. The 300 tankers needed to service the battle fleets are available but there is a deficiency of high-speed tankers (16½ knots or better). When Roosevelt I sent the U. S. Navy around the world in 1908 the fighting...
When Buffalo's publicity wise Bell Aircraft Corp. delivered a single experimental super bomber-fighter to the U. S. Army Air Corps last July they dubbed it Airacuda-air for its medium; acuda, from barracuda, that giant warm-ocean pike-like fish noted as a tireless, reckless, vicious killer. To Airacuda Bell Aircraft proudly added a mixed-metaphoric subtitle "Tiger of the Skies." Last week, Army pilots who were testing it at Wright Field, Dayton, found it indeed a "tiger...
Significance-. In 1933 TWA pioneered the single most successful civil aircraft in aviation's history-the Douglas DC-2, famed the world over for performance, beauty, reliability and now the stand-by of most big U. S. airlines. Next year, again months ahead of its competitors, TWA will take the skies with eight new Boeings-four-engined, high altitude airplanes that will seat 33, sleep 25 passengers. The problem confronting TWA is not drawing business from competitors but to obtain a new class of air travelers to fill the eight four-engined giants they will have in service...
...market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...