Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President received Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and approved plans to push ahead at once the building of the following new craft: four battleships, four light cruisers, one aircraft carrier, eight destroyers, six submarines. The President exercised discretion vested in him by Congress by deciding not, at this time, to raise the tonnage on two of the battleships from 35,000 tons...
...meeting in 1934, three wars have been waged against both combatants and noncombatants. During the Italo-Ethiopian war, Ethiopian villages were gassed and bombed, Ethiopians who probably had only a vague idea of the war were slaughtered by the hundreds. In the Spanish civil war, heavy artillery, efficient new aircraft are being used to attack cities and civilians. In the year-old Sino-Japanese conflict, Tokyo's planes have devastated entire sections of unfortified Chinese towns, killing thousands of women and children...
Tony Fokker might have gone on to explain that he had his eye on a shipbuilding business to replace a U. S. aircraft career that ended when the Department of Commerce grounded his transport planes after the mysterious Rockne crash (TIME, April 6, 1931). But at that point a telephone extension buzzed. He caught up the receiver. From across 3,500 miles of sea came a familiar voice. "Hello, momma," boomed Fokker happily, and in mingled English and Dutch described to his mother in Holland the scene on New York City's Harlem...
...Lamar Hardy have been trying to net since February (TIME, May 30). The hunt began when an American Army deserter of Austrian parentage, brush-headed Guenther Gustave Rumrich, was arrested in a clumsy attempt to steal passport blanks. He promptly implicated several German-Americans in attempts to steal Army aircraft designs and military secrets. Five days after looking at the chart, the Grand Jury returned indictments in the most serious charges of espionage ever made by the U. S. against a friendly power...
...Ignatz Griebl, are believed to have left the U. S. Two, Lieut. Commander Udo von Bruen, and Lieut. Commander Hermann Menzel are minor officials of the German War Ministry. In captivity awaiting trial are only four: Otto Hermann Voss, a onetime employe in the experimental section of Seversky Aircraft Corp. at Farmingdale, L. I., charged with shipping information on U. S. Army planes to Germany; Guenther Rumrich; a U. S. Army private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and messenger of the ring, charged with transmitting to their employers the secret code...