Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting services asked such sums as $410,000,000 for the Army, $525,000,000 for the Navy and spoke casually of setting up "14 new munitions factories." Meanwhile the first long-expected "returning prosperity strike" in the Rearmament industry had suddenly immobilized half the mighty Rolls-Royce aircraft engine works at Derby...
...Santa Monica, Calif. 345 of 5,600 employes of Douglas Aircraft Co. on the third day of a sit-down were indicted for "forcible entry and occupancy" but refused to retreat. Police and sheriff's deputies, 350 strong, surrounded the plant, brought up machine guns, ominously set up a dressing station for expected casualties with a Red Cross flag prominently displayed. The sit-downers retaliated by arming themselves with wrenches, rolling airplanes to the windows so that their propellers could be used to blow tear gas out of the plant. They distributed drums of paint with which they threatened...
...during a White air raid on Valencia that a Red anti-aircraft shell landed squarely on the quarterdeck of the British battleship Royal Oak, injuring four officers and a seaman. Not wishing to stir up pro-Valencian British Laborites, the British Admiralty made light of the whole affair. Declared an Admiralty official: "We might reproach the Loyalists for the awkward aiming of an anti-aircraft shell, but there is no question of malice. It was more or less...
Married. David Swope, son of President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co.; and Sarah Porter Hunsaker, daughter of Aircraft Designer Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (Shenandoah, NC-4), onetime (1928-33) vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Co.; in Boston...
Chemical officers will admit-or even argue-that it is conceivable that some foreign power or combination of powers might drive the U. S. Navy to cover, bring up their aircraft carriers to 50 or 100 miles from the coast, attack New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis by air. Lieut.-Col. Prentiss holds that, if such a fantastic possibility materialized, incendiary bombs and high explosives would be more harmful than gas. To be effective, gas requires masses of human beings at ground level and without adequate shelter. War gas is heavy. Even if the enemy had the tremendous number...