Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must not be misguided by this foreign propaganda to the effect that our frontiers lie in Europe.* What more could we ask than the Atlantic Ocean on the East, the Pacific on the West? ... An ocean is a formidable barrier, even for modern aircraft...
Last week, having just returned to inactive status in the Army Reserve (after looking over aircraft production facilities for the Air Corps), Charles Lindbergh could say what he pleased. His associates in the War Department guessed enough of what he wanted to say to ask him not to say it. Some of his few intimates insisted before & after he spoke that Charles Lindbergh is for shipping arms and airplanes to the Allies. If he expected his speech to be so interpreted, he was notably naive. It was as the son of his father that he said...
...still Polish. Hour after hour, day after day, the notes came like hope rising from an inferno. For the world also knew what other sounds filled Warsaw-the bellow of bombing planes in power dives, the scream of fighting planes on the attack, the sharp whanging of anti-aircraft guns, the mighty thump, boom and roar of half-ton bombs plowing up the city's remaining defenses. To the North, the continuous thunder of artillery made a background for the nearer hammering of defense guns on the East, hurling shells over the rooftops toward the German positions...
...bombers, trying to keep the sun at their backs, will be the pursuits, single-seaters in battle formation. Their job: to protect bombardment in its egg-laying. When the enemy pursuit rises to knock the bombers out of the air, hurtling through the bursts of its own anti-aircraft fire, when it locks horns with the protecting pursuit in swirling mass dogfight, military textbooks can be thrown away. For when the day's bloody work is over, the military schools will have fact for the next fight, instead of theory...
When President Roosevelt last week invoked the provisions of the Neutrality Act (see p. 9), U. S. aircraft makers were unable to export any more fighting planes. They still had nearly half of recent $160,000,000 British and French orders to deliver but they did not worry. They had stipulated in their contracts that in just this event they should be paid when the planes were delivered to Allied agents within the U. S. The Allies have to take the chance that the Neutrality Act will be modified so that they can use their property...