Word: aircrafters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Limits profits on Army aircraft contracts to 12% (instead of 10% as fixed by the Senate...
...hour and 45 minutes after the first proclamation was issued the Army's march on Prague began. "Attention! Attention!" blared Czech radios every five minutes all day. "German Army infantry and aircraft are beginning occupation of the republic. . . . The slightest resistance will bring . . . utter brutality. All commands have to obey the order. The units will be disarmed. Military and civil airplanes must remain in airports...
From the CzechoSlovak seizure Germany will get seven major armament and several aircraft & engine plants. The arms factories consist of the four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told...
...Army Air Corps, the most potent aerial force in the nation's history, calls for new and stronger fortifications around Panama Canal, bolsters seacoast and inland defenses, increases the size of the Army, and equips it with vast supplies of vital equipment such as automatic rifiles, anti-aircraft guns and artillery...
...Under an amendment sponsored by "Dear Alben" Barkley for C.I.O., a department head may not award any contracts for national defense to bidders whom he finds guilty of unfair labor practices. 2) New Hampshire's Republican Charles William Tobey got the Senate to limit profits on Army aircraft contracts to 10% (as in the Navy, where a similar limitation has been in effect since...