Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Loening stoutly defends Orville Wright in the famed controversy with the Smithsonian Institution over Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Bitterest Loening scorn is reserved for the Wartime Aircraft Production Board headed by Motorman Howard Earle Coffin, whom he accuses of having led a "Detroit conspiracy" in "crafty scheming to wean away aviation from its rightful owners...
...Pacific Triangle" between Hawaii, Puget Sound, the Aleutian Islands. Fifty thousand men would take part on 160 vessels, in 450 planes. Potent newcomers to the Fleet would be the battleship Idaho, just modernized for $14,000,000; the Ranger, first U. S. aircraft carrier built as such from the keel up; five more heavy "treaty" cruisers; destroyers Dewey and Farragut, swiftest blue-water craft ever to join the Navy and first of a long line to replace the obsolescent Wartime destroyers. It was a Fleet, the Navy could not refrain from boasting, which was not only the most powerful ever...
First, anti-aircraft batteries would fire blank shots. If these were disregarded, French combat planes would take the air, surround the German peepers and try to shoo them back into Germany, "making every effort to avoid collision and in no case pursuing beyond the frontier...
...favour of an all-round abolition of national military and naval aircraft by international agreement...
Total profits of the first 1,136 industrial corporations to report for 1934 were $982,000,000, an increase of 54% over the $635,000,000 earned by the same companies in 1933. Only important industrial groups losing ground last year were leather & shoes, sugar, textile & apparel, aircraft, shipping & shipbuilding. Even including utilities, which showed a 6% decline in profits, and railroads, which operated at a deficit, the net increase in U. S. corporate profits for the second year of the New Deal was a clear...