Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain set a record by launching three new cruisers: the 8,000-ton Nigeria and Mauritius and the 5,450-ton Dido. Within the next several months the Navy will also launch two 35,000-ton battleships, the Duke of York and the Beatty; two new 23,000-ton aircraft carriers, the Victorious and the Formidable; four more cruisers, a destroyer depot ship and several destroyers and submarines...
...Langfuhr, northwest of the city, and soon were observed installing machine guns and building fortifications on the Bischofsberg, the hill to the city's southwest. Moreover, Danzig itself started a local Nazi Heimwehr of some 10,000 men. Authentic reports had it that boatloads of artillery and anti-aircraft had arrived by German ships. In the Danzig shipyards German employers were ordered by the political leaders to dismiss Polish workers. Out beyond on the fortified Hel Peninsula, which is Polish, antiaircraft guns took a shot at a German plane after giving it a warning salvo...
...Pope Pius XII tossed a lifeline to a sinking friend, once-honored General Umberto Nobile. Mussolini had busted Airman Nobile out of the service when his 1928 Polar expedition ended with the crack-up of the dirigible Italia which killed eight crew members, ended Italy's lighter-than-aircraft dreams. In his small flat near the Tiber, where few friends dared visit him, Umberto Nobile silently endured the usual fate of Fascism's failures-ostracism. Only honor left was his membership in the Pontifical Academy of Science, conferred by the late Pius...
...Admiralty head ordered fleet of anti-aircraft guns ready for action...
...Packinghouses, utilities, lumbering, shoes, aircraft, business offices. In these and many another, the same story generally holds good: C. I. O. in its first burst of organization in 1936-37 did the spadework; A. F. of L. came in later, organizing the same industries and even the same shops where C. I. O. had won Labor's first important gains...