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Word: aircrafters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view with equanimity any other system than that they both should profit from Rearmament to the limit, insist that it be "All British." His Majesty's Government were flooded with complaints from employers and employes all heading up to blaming Air Secretary Viscount Swinton for the British aircraft industry's "muddles and delays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Muddles & Delays | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...type of British aircraft the Air Ministry were accused of having ordered over 6,000 modifications of the original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Muddles & Delays | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Douglas Aircraft $237,351 $105,771 Columbia Brocasting 1,319,126 1,494,980 Tide Water 3,328,303 3, 270, 264 Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First Quarter | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...true that the Japanese battleship Mutsu was sunk off Kiangyin by Chinese aircraft in the last week of November 1937? Is it true that Mutsu's sister ship Nagata was built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft. It shot down one of the pursuing planes on the Manchukuo-Soviet border, was itself shot down by other Ogpu planes. The eight Soviet officers were killed in the crash. Yominri, the third largest Tokyo paper, spends much time slyly baiting Japan's dominant militarist clique, is considered radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Army Purge | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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