Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton, half of our phosphate rock and between a fourth and a half of our total production of canned and dried fruits. Among manufactured products, we export from a fourth to a half of our total production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum products, foodstuffs, wood-pulp and copper-to mention only a few items-are produced for the foreign market. . . ." Author of this exposition is ruddy President Warren Lee Pierson of the Export-Import...
Howard Hughes's plane is owned by his own Hughes Aircraft Co. He will pay the entire cost of the trip, about $5,000, himself. Only connection of this private venture with the New York World's Fair is that he is the Fair's aeronautical adviser...
Japanese bombers, finding the Wuhan cities substantially unprotected, came over, squadron after squadron during the week, flying at from 10,000 to 15,000 feet, above the range of Chinese anti-aircraft batteries. More than 100 bombs dotted the Hankow airfield with yawning craters. Wuchang was systematically bombed by Japanese craft flying in parallel lines, with nearly 500 deaths in a single...
...compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles had flown the 2,700 miles to New York nonstop. A vacation trip, he said, and a fairly pleasant one, from his job at the Northrop Corp. aircraft works at Inglewood, Calif...
When Anthony Fokker bowed out of U. S. aviation in 1931 he was by no means out of business. He was still building Fokkers in Holland, and for the last two years he has been assembling Douglas aircraft abroad under a cross-licensing agreement making him the Douglas manufacturer for Europe. War scares abroad have boomed his business to a reputed $500,000 monthly. He is currently seeking a license to build Fokker ships in Canada...