Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think foreign warships could make courtesy visits to Black Sea ports without incurring suspicion that their purpose was "aggressive." To Turkish proposals that the straits be closed to all submarines, Orator Litvinoff replied that Soviet submarines must have the right to pass, others might perhaps be excluded, and that aircraft carriers of the nonBlack Sea powers should certainly be barred...
...Papen and Austrian financiers; he was greeted in Belgrade with an order for German heavy industrial products almost huge enough to wipe out the $8,000,000 Germany owes Yugoslavia; and in Athens the swashbuckling entourage of Premier General Metaxas said talk had all been of deals involving German aircraft, artillery and four destroyers for Greece. In Sofia there was a matter of some Bulgar credits in Germany now secretly liquidated in great part by German shipments of arms to Italy for which Italy paid Bulgaria by canceling debts Bulgaria previously owed Italy; and as for the Hungarians they...
...admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville Wright for his automatic stabilizer, Designer Douglas graduated, began to build his first real airplane at the plant of Aircrafter Glenn L. Martin. This week, 44-year-old Designer Douglas, now head of the world's greatest airplane factory, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., will journey to the White House to receive from President Roosevelt the 21st Collier Trophy, now the top U. S. air honor, awarded...
...airplane manufacturing plant which has grown to be the world's largest is the (1 Boeing Aircraft Company, Seattle, Washington, 2 Henkel Manufacturing Company, Germany, 3 Sikorsky Airplane Company, Connecticut, 4 Douglas Aircraft Company, California, 5 ZTU Company, Russia...
...waving a sheaf of papers in one hand, reporting on what he has so far accomplished to get Britain ready for war. Naval Building. The Admiralty has asked for $51,500,000 beyond its original estimate of $349,650,000 to build two battleships, five cruisers, nine destroyers, one aircraft carrier, four submarines and an assortment of minor craft. Munitions. Nine hundred private plants have been inspected, 400 of them most carefully. Within a few days most of these will receive contracts for making machine tools and gauges, necessary before any large-scale munitions program can be undertaken. Air Force...