Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...howled over the entire Tokyo area of 5,000,000 people. He trotted to his doorstep with pails of water, set them outside to extinguish imaginary fires. Overhead he saw enemy planes in small formations zooming out of the mist, circling over parks and department store roofs where anti-aircraft guns spat upward. Suddenly the street blossomed with colored vapors, to indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with cars, motorcycles and bicycles scudding past...
...would be constructed out of the $238,000,000 cash allotment to the Navy from the Public Works Fund, five out of regular annual appropriations. Total expenditures for fiscal 1934 were estimated at $86,000,000. Contracts awarded: To Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-two 20,000-ton aircraft carriers at $19,000,000 each. To Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.-one 10,000-ton cruiser with 8-in. guns at $11,720,000; four 1,850-ton destroyers at $3,896,000 each. To New York Shipbuilding Co. of which Errett Lobban Cord last week bought control...
...about 80 mi. north of Angmagsalik. Meanwhile the University of Michigan Pan American Airways West Greenland Expedition, commanded by Dr. Ralph Belknap, worked out of three bases. Last August Watkins was drowned when his kayak capsized but his party carried on under his aide, John R. Rymill. Using no aircraft except sounding balloons (Lindbergh will do the aerial job) both these expeditions have made exhaustive weather studies which will be completed this summer. Early reports have come drifting into Pan American's Manhattan office. Some preliminary findings...
Clippers. Equipment means airplanes. The first two of six flying boats, larger than any aircraft heretofore constructed in the U. S., are now abuilding for Pan American. From the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, which will produce three of the boats, the first will emerge for flight tests this autumn. The Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore, builder of the other three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they...
...pledges: "To build and maintain a fleet of all classes of fighting ships of the maximum war efficiency and replace overage ships." (That meant that the Navy would use the $238,000,000 allotted it under the public works program to build 32 new men-o-war-cruisers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines-to bring its strength up to the full limit of the London Treaty, make its "second to none" boast a reality.) "To assemble the U. S. fleet for a period of not less than two months at least once a year." (That meant that Roosevelt economy would...