Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take this opportunity to call your attention to the fact that the Bellanca low-wing monoplane "The Dorothy" used by Captain Mollison was not purchased with the idea in mind" of entering it in the Johannesburg Air Race. The deposit on the aircraft was received on Sept. 10 and Captain Mollison arrived in the U. S. the latter part of September, first coming to our factory on the 28th. The Johannesburg Race started at dawn from London on Sept. 29. The delivery date given Captain Mollison when placing the order was October 15; our pilot tested the machine...
Assistant Secretary Bellanca Aircraft Corp...
...statement and British officials were obliged to disclose further the surprising fact that today the French General Staff is cold to the idea of having a British land force again rushed across the Channel as in 1914, though the French are hot to have all possible British fighting aircraft dispatched on the first outbreak of hostilities...
...General Franco's White planes had by no means disappeared from the skies. Choosing an early hour when Madrid's anti-aircraft guns were off their guard, three trimotored Whites zoomed suddenly over the Capital's southeast working-class district, and plunked bomb after bomb in the streets as women and children were thronging to the market and as hundreds of men had massed in the open for a workers' meeting. Before the frenzied citizens could hurry for shelter 52 of them were killed...
...Manhattan Stockbroker Charles Edwin Mitchell (Blyth & Co. Inc.), onetime (1929-33) board chairman of National City Bank; and President George Adam Rentschler Jr., 44, of General Machinery Corp. (Hamilton, Ohio), brother of National City's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler and of Board Chairman Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.; in Manhattan...