Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four million dollars ($250,000 per day) was a conservative estimate of U. S. Government expense for the Earhart search (one aircraft carrier, one battleship, one mine sweeper, three destroyers, one Coast Guard cutter). But President Roosevelt explained that the money was well-spent, for experience...
...cloudy afternoon Dutchmen heard the drumming of war engines as a big flight of bombers sped east across The Netherlands, safe from anti-aircraft fire above a thick overcast. From their course, air-wise Dutchmen (who protested this violation of their neutrality) concluded they were headed for three Nazi naval bases (Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Brunsbüttel), clustered in a 50-mile circle around the North Sea mouth of the Kiel Canal. They were right...
Francis Neville Chamberlain, little-publicized 25-year-old son of Great Britain's Prime Minister, a $25-a-week chemical plant apprentice, was called up for service, joined the 69th Anti-Aircraft Brigade...
...listless market (457,890 shares) became peacetime financial history. The next morning as the Germans entered Poland, 1,970,000 shares (1939's daily average 720,072 shares; 1939's biggest day, 2,888,000 shares) changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. War babies (steel, metals, aircrafts) led the advance. Bethlehem Steel, Santa Claus to many a World War I investor, zoomed 7: points (to 65), Anaconda Copper was up 4? (to 28?). Aircraft stocks all took off, registered gains of 7.5% to 18.1%. The Dow-Jones industrial average hit 135.25 (still 19.65 below the 1939 high...
...German air raiders now are coming back, after making a wide circle. . . . I can see puffs of anti-aircraft fire...