Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak at a dinner, he found young Quakers picketing the street, bearing placards such as: WAR IS ALWAYS WRONG and ARMAMENTS REPRESENT DEATH TO YOU BUT DIVIDENDS TO THE PRIVATE FIRMS. When, in Reyburn Plaza, Mr. Dern made a brief speech and played at aiming a 3-in. anti-aircraft gun, Quakers distributed anti-war leaflets to the crowd while a chartered airplane overhead rained down more printed matter. Few days later, after the Secretary of War was well out of the way, the Quakers held a meeting of their own in the Plaza, exhibited a model of a dinosaur...
...difficult privilege to be the torch bearer of ordered freedom. I could wish that aircraft had never been invented, but they are here and somehow we have got to Christianize them. . . . The greatest force in the world today for peace is the British Empire...
Though Pope Pius XI owns a helicopter, Vatican City is too small (109 acres) and crowded to permit the landing of other aircraft. Last week a truck brought into his little realm its first airplane. The Holy Father promptly walked out to peer at it through his thick spectacles, observe on its side the name of his predecessor: SANCTUS PETRUS. The plane, as Pius XI was gratefully aware, was the gift of a recently-formed German organization, the Missions Verkehrs Arbeit Gemeinschaft ("Mission Traffic Aid Society"). Founded by a onetime army aviator named Rev. Paul Schulte who now belongs...
Settling down to the security of a newspaper career, Pilot Collins brought his wife and children east fortnight ago, installed them in a Long Island apartment, decided to give up test-piloting for good just as soon as he cleaned up his contract with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. to test a new Navy fighter...
...Gehlbach, test pilot for Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., well-known racing pilot. Collins rated him "one of the ablest in the field...