Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to forget about their union, sat down with President Fry and worked out a settlement as a "family affair." Simultaneously this week a new rash of sit-downs erupted throughout the land, victims including Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies), Santa Monica, Calif.'s Douglas Aircraft Co., Groton, Conn.'s Electric Boat Co. and Crowell Publishing Co.'s printing plant at Springfield, Ohio...
...Manhattan it was estimated last week that 1,000 million dollars, or about one-tenth of the world's entire current rearmament bill, is being spent for fighting aircraft alone. Vice President Howard S. Welch of Bendix Aviation Corp. figured that 62,349 serviceable planes exist today, about one-third of them war planes, and that in 1937 an additional 28,500 planes are being built, four-fifths of them war planes...
...declares a state of war or civil strife to exist a number of very definite commercial and financial drawbridges are raised: an automatic embargo on exports of arms, ammunition and "implements of war"; curtailment of all loans to belligerents; prohibition of any Americans to travel on the vessels or aircraft of warring nations; and perhaps most important, the provision that all American claims to any materials whatsoever, intended for a belligerent country, must be relinquished before they leave an American port. The neutrality bill fits the pressing demand for a strictly defined policy, permitting the President to stick his finger...
...superadjacent to and overlying" their land and "extending to such an altitude as the plaintiff may reasonably expect to occupy." Denied by lower courts, the suit was appealed to California's Supreme Court which last week held that there had been no effective precedent and that aircraft should be treated leniently as "a new and romantic industry." Concluded the Court: "The air, like the sea, is by its nature incapable of private ownership, except insofar as one may actually...
...appeared on newsstands for the first time last week. Costing 25? a copy, containing 48 pages and no advertisements, it had endowed itself liberally with characteristics of both the publications it aimed to miss. Its cover and typography, its centre section of long corporation stories on Western Union, Sikorsky Aircraft and Promoter George L. Berry, were strongly reminiscent of FORTUNE. Its general run of financial news stories (leading article of Vol. 1 No. 1 was the automobile strike) sounded much like the Journal...