Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flown on the northeast leg, and for many other reasons, the Air Board found: 1) that the crash was due primarily to bad judgment by Pilot Stead and two Oakland dispatchers, Thomas P. Van Sceiver and Philip Stever Showalter; 2) that U. A. L.'s procedures for aiding aircraft under such an emergency were inadequate...
Last week at Santa Monica, Calif., Douglas Aircraft Co. test-flew a new ship, turned its back on the design trend which in the past five years has put low-wing monoplanes on every large domestic airline in the U. S. Not since the last famed Ford "tin goose" and Fokker tri-motor disappeared from service had a high-wing monoplane like Douglas' new DC-5, which carries 16 passengers and uses a retractable tricycle landing gear, been offered for transport service...
...story was that England had been allowed to buy an advanced U. S. anti-aircraft gun director. The President's story...
...Against Bugs. William Leahy says all the U. S. has to do to keep on good naval footing is to maintain its Navy at its present relative standing in battleships and aircraft carriers, continue its cruiser and destroyer construction program, sharply accelerate its aircraft and submarine program, step up its aircraft procurement to 500 planes per year. Object: to stay just behind Great Britain in heavy categories, come well up with the authoritarians in lighter ships. The job of building ships is therefore highly important to the U. S. Navy, equally important to the U. S. citizens who must...
...which warned Britain that it was now too late to be nice to Generalissimo Franco. A more direct sign of displeasure came when Rebel bombers raided Port Mahon while the Devonshire was still in the harbor, dropping their cargoes so near the cruiser that the crew manned her anti-aircraft guns. Not much more reassuring for the British was a Rebel version of the Minorca surrender which ungratefully toned down Britain's "good offices," trumped up a tale about a brief but heroic landing on the island which ended in its capitulation...