Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens like hours. Out of low, heavy clouds which had concealed their approach, four big White planes thundered to bomb the slum district of Madrid while three small White pursuit ships strafed the streets with machine guns. Six defending pursuit planes were soon diving on the Whites and anti-aircraft guns spat up at them from Madrid, but all got safely away...
...London today Rolls-Royce Ltd. is considered an armament firm, chiefly engaged in turning out aircraft engines. In 30 years of Rolls-Royce production there have been only four models: the Silver Ghost (1906-25), the Phantom I (1925-29), the Phantom II (1929-35) and the Phantom III. Says the company in bringing out a 12-cylinder car for the first time: "Rolls-Royce have probably had more experience in the design and construction of 12-cylinder engines than any other firm in the world, for their first motor of this type was produced over 20 years...
Facing the destructive side of war, Major General Edward Croft, Chief of Infantry, U. S. A., took pains not to belittle the future. Said he: "We know that there will be great fleets of aircraft and great fleets of tanks. We know that motorization and mechanization are here to stay. And, despite all the humanitarian pacts ever signed, we know that gas is going to be used on an unprecedented scale. You gentlemen are going to encounter two new types of casualties in increasing numbers, namely mustard gas and out-&-out burns. It should not be an uncommon occurrence...
...their anxiety last week, Lord Swinton and his Air Ministry subordinates decided that they could be on the safe side only by placing orders in the U. S. for the manufacture of at least 700 fighting planes. This decision came just after U. S. aircraft salesmen had left London, disgruntled by the cool assurances of civil servants that Britain was making and would make all fighting aircraft she needed. Under Congress' so-called Espionage Act of June 15, 1917 it may still be a crime punishable by 20 years' imprisonment to export equipment such as fighting planes...
Meanwhile the "shadow aircraft industry" scheme of the Air Ministry was not scrapped. Behind it are the prestige and wisdom of Britons too powerful to be soon sidetracked. Last week six British automobile firms signed up to make whatever engine parts they are each told to make by the Air Ministry. Part of the shadow scheme calls for the building by these companies of a certain number of new factories which will not make anything at all until after Britain has gone to war. Until then the companies will keep machinery in such factories well-greased to prevent it from...