Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story buildings are partly or wholly leveled. So heavy are these messengers of death that the bombing planes tip to one side and wobble a little as they are released. The city is singularly helpless and defenseless against attacks from the air because the Government's anti-aircraft armament is practically useless. About a dozen machine guns and one-pounders, handled by woefully in expert militiamen, have not brought down a single enemy plane so far, all the claims in Government communiques notwithstanding...
Tracing letters sent to Ginger Rogers demanding $5,000 on threat of kidnapping or death. Department of Justice agents trapped Sailor James F. Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically...
...kinds of direct government subsidy-to shipbuilders of as much as 50% of construction costs; to ship operators sufficient to put them on an equal basis with foreign competitors (TIME, July 13). The Commission was directed by the Act to "investigate and determine" what provision should be made for aircraft. Last week, Assistant Secretary Johnson smiled upon the Business Advisory Council Report, promised to submit it to Congress after discussing it with the Maritime Commission. They appointed Pilot Robert E. Lees, a specialist in auto-giros, to advise them about...
Aviators of the invading forces complained that to desert with an airplane is certainly worth more than $6,000, but otherwise the scale of bribes was esteemed just. Another itemized scale announced that Premier Chiang will pay $3,000 for an anti-aircraft gun; $900 for a tank; $300 for a machine gun; $9 for a rifle and $6 for a pistol...
...same week he bought his son's present, Broker Meehan received a present from the Securities & Exchange Commission in the form of a summons to show cause why he should not be suspended from all U. S. stock exchanges for alleged manipulation of Bellanca Aircraft stock. Hotly denying that he had been jiggling Bellanca or any other stock, Broker Meehan prepared to defend himself...