Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of expansion of her long-service army of 100,000 men into a short-service, peacetime army of 300,000 men in flat violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Far more interesting is the air position. . . . The figure we have on excellent authority is 600 military aircraft. . . . The budget in 1932-33 amounted to 43,250,000 reichsmarks, and on that budget Germany was operating a very markedly successful civil aviation. The next year the figures rose to 75,000,000 and this year to the surprising figure of 210,000,000. . . . There is ground for very grave anxiety...
...Moscow last week, as Dictator Stalin considered President Roosevelt's reputed offer, were aggressive President Vincent Bendix of Bendix Corp. (airplane equipment, automobile starters, brakes); General Motors Vice President T. W. Tinkham; White Motor Truck Vice President Colonel Everett Gardner; and representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp., ace builders of battle planes. Though Washington spoke of Red orders for U.S. heavy industry, the supersalesmen actually in Moscow last week all seemed to offer equipment to motorize the Red Army against Japan...
...metal, high-speed, 14-passenger transports began replacing other older makes on the nation's airways. His factory at Santa Monica, which employed 600 hands a year ago, today has 3,200. So great is the world's admiration for the Douglas Airliner that even when Douglas Aircraft Co. omitted its semi-annual dividend last February-cash was needed to finance unfilled orders-the stock strengthened its position in Wall Street...
From the Japanese viewpoint, and Admiral Yamamoto had tightly closed his eyes and ears to any other, what could be fairer? Japan knows that the decisive weapon of the West against her would be the aircraft carrier, that her best defense against it would be the submarine. She too, would need aircraft carriers to fight the West and in renouncing them would be making a gesture of peace. Finally who says that Japan is not a Great Power worthy of "equality...
...judge of his people, Don Arturo knows that hard, secretive Chileans viewed with distaste the open revelations openly arrived at by the U. S. Senate munitions investigation (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Santiago quietly approved as "The Lion" got back at Washington with a shrewd thrust. Several U. S. aircraft firms were bidding against British rivals for contracts which will increase the strength of planes in Chile's Air Force by nearly...