Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Budget cuts will not interfere with the buildiing of seven cruisers, one aircraft carrier, three submarines, five destroyers. Only the construction of six destroyers has been temporarily postponed. The U. S. has larger naval tonnage now under construction than any other power...
Only on capital ships and aircraft carriers was the U. S.-Japanese naval ratio 10-6 before...
...photographs of the Lindberghs and their capsized plane in the Yangtze River (TIME, Oct. 12) which appeared in the U. S. press last week were sold by Col. Lindbergh to Wide World Photos (New York Times) in this fashion: When the mishap occurred alongside the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes, some 50 sailors began snapping their cameras. Aware of Colonel Lindbergh's ideas on publicity, the commander of the Hermes offered to confiscate the films. Tactfully Colonel Lindbergh declined. Instead he agreed that the pictures be sold to one of the eager news services for $4,000, the proceeds...
...Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc. for 28 observation planes and seven bombers, $718,875. This company, operating mainly on Government contracts, reported an estimated profit of $548,000 for the first nine months...
...Detroit Aircraft Corp. for 10 low-wing Lockheeds to be used as pursuit or attack planes...