Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damage valuable government property more than was absolutely necessary. In the line of duty they hit the General O'Higgins right on the nose. Her prow burst into flames which were quickly put out. There was no score on the Almirante Latorre but her two blazing anti-aircraft guns perforated one of the planes' wings. One bomb landed full on a ship's launch, killed eight...
...dingy schooner beat into the small harbor of Gibara in the north of Oriente Province last week and tied up to the fruit dock. Quick as monkeys three dozen Cubans went over the side with a light machine gun and a high angle anti-aircraft...
...Within five hours Federals were moving against Gibara, by land, by sea, in the air. The filibusters got their asthmatic freight no farther than the station before five combat planes were ripping over the area, dropping bombs, strafing the ground with short bursts of machine gun fire. The anti-aircraft gun barked angrily. One bullet knocked the magneto off Capt. Torres Menier's plane. Two more planes, one piloted by Lieut. Rodolfo Herrera, son of the Cuban Army's Chief of Staff, were shot down. All three landed safely...
...Bolivia Railroad ("Fags"), Canadian Pacific, and Costa Rican. The bank division lists the British banks, also Chartered Bank of India, Bank of Hongkong, National Bank of Egypt and others. Imperial Chemical heads the chemical group while the textiles include Celanese, Coats and Courtaulds. Industrials include Vickers (steel), De Havilland Aircraft, Imperial Airways, Cunard, Dunlop, Kreuger & Toll, Unilever, Swedish Match, British-American Tobacco ("Bats") and Imperial Tobacco ("Imps"). Favorite of the land shares is Sudan Plantations, great Government-subsidized cotton farms. Guinness and Allsopp lead the breweries...
Combined sales of military and commercial aircraft in the first six months of 1931 gained $85,703 over sales in the first six months of 1930, the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce reported last week. Planes and engines valued at $19,618,043 were sold by manufacturers in the first half of 1931 as compared to $19,532,340 in the same period last year. Sales of commercial aircraft declined sharply but a 57.8% increase in sales of military aircraft more than made up the difference. Production of commercial planes slumped even lower than sales in the first six months...