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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress last week voted, and the War Department immediately spent, $46,400,000 for new airplanes, engines and other gear. The civilian in charge of Army buying, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, evinced no qualms when he reported to Franklin Roosevelt on the biggest peacetime order for aircraft. Some of the 571 planes ordered, the President heard, would do better than 400 m.p.h.; all are the best to be had. The contract awards (number of planes estimated unofficially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: High & Fast | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...coming Bell Aircraft for 13 single-engined interceptors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: High & Fast | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Beech Aircraft for commercial cabin planes for photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: High & Fast | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Fleet-back to its "normal operating areas" in the Pacific. But he had left in the Atlantic (and for the New York World's Fair) much more than the small Atlantic Squadron normally on eastern duty. By the order, four battleships, twelve cruisers, 23 destroyers, two aircraft carriers, six submarines would stay behind. Westward were to go eight battleships, 15 cruisers, 43 destroyers, three aircraft carriers, 20 auxiliaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: She to the West | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Early inquirers of the Stafford camouflaging method were executives of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. Biggest recent job is the great Short Bros. aircraft works, 30 miles east of London, where Imperial Airways flying boats are built. London's $25,000,000 drainage plant will soon look like a village of criss-crossed highways, farm buildings, fields and forests. Easiest to camouflage, says Mr. Stafford, is a flat-roofed building in wooded countryside, over which a continuation of the woods may be painted; hardest is a tall building by a river, especially one with a big smokestack. Impossible to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Masquerade | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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