Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, a more notable reopening occurred near Los Angeles, where Northrop aircraft, subsidiary of big Douglas Aircraft, operated again after a seven-week strike. President Donald Douglas had also declared that he was through, and followed up by revealing that the Army had refused to accept delivery of Northrop fighting planes because of "indicated sabotage...
...fulfilled by the U. S., the U. S. Navy consisted of 325 fighting ships, 212 of which, including 158 destroyers, were classified as "over age." Now abuilding or appropriated for in the present push to reach the quotas are 87 vessels, including besides the North Carolina and Washington three aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 55 destroyers and 17 submarines, the keel for one of which, the Swordfish, was laid last week at the Navy's yard in Mare Island, Calif. Only nation to admit to bigger naval rearmament is Great Britain, whose 285 vessels are being increased by 96, including...
...There are no more planes in Gijón." said one. "Against Franco's aviation no defense is possible. Bombs rain on the airfield. There is no more ammunition for the anti-aircraft guns...
...other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders came over at 6 p.m., 6:07, 6:30, and 6:50. Japanese warships in the river, Japanese land batteries and Chinese artillery-all opened up in bedlam, streaking the evening sky with tracer bullets. Japanese aircraft, zooming up from a field the Chinese were bombing, got busy in mad efforts to save themselves and retaliate with as much damage to Chinese as possible, proceeded to fly over the neutral foreigners in the International Settlement with full cargoes of bombs, released these at speed over the Settlement...
...bombs went wide of the mark, splashing into ponds between the power house and the hotel, too close for comfort but . . . very nice for pictures. The following planes came in with greater accuracy and dropped three eggs directly on the structure itself. . . . During this attack . . . the Chinese anti-aircraft with, I believe, .50 calibre machine guns brought down a plane directly in front of the building. It was impossible to get more than just the actual crash because things were happening entirely too fast...