Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Franklin Roosevelt: 1) estimated the cost of his recently ordered emergency additions to the Army, Navy, Marine corps (and FBI) at $275,000,000; 2) let it be announced that the Navy wants $1,300,000,000 in appropriations, to pay for eight cruisers, 52 destroyers, three aircraft carriers, 32 submarines -all over & above the huge naval construction program now under...
Jobbers. To one class of U. S. citizens, however, the new act brought no pain whatsoever. The mushrooming aircraft industry greeted the news with a figurative tooting of factory-whistles: hauled out blueprints for a big war trade, prepared to jump capacity to peak-load production and tie it there. The Big Three of California plane-making-Lockheed, Douglas, North American-prepared to take on from 2,000 to 10,000 men to get out $110,000,000 worth of accumulated orders, with millions more to come. Without plant expansion the numerous California companies can build more than 700 aircraft...
...With 626 planes ready for shipment in the U. S., with an additional $100,000,000 in plane orders reported on the way, with Canada preparing to buy 1,500 planes in which to begin training 25,000 Empire airmen during 1940, the plane outlook was rosy. Trading in aircraft stocks boomed on the nation's markets; day after day aircraft stocks led in turnover...
...Firm A" offered to supply mountings for Bofors anti-aircraft guns (a Nuffield specialty made under leased Swedish patents) for ?220 each ($880), according to Mr. Stokes, while the bid of "Firm B" on the same mountings...
...reported that China's four northwestern-most provinces-Sinkiang, Kansu, Ning-shia, Shensi-from which the famed Communist Eighth Route Army has kept the Japanese, are being systematically Soviet-ized. And from Paris came word that Russia is to transfer tanks, howitzers, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns captured in Poland by both the Red and German Armies across Russia and into China...