Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treaty is drafted to run until 1942. It is to be signed by only the U.S., Britain and France. It provides that none of the signatories shall build or otherwise acquire: Capital Ships of over 35,000 tons each; Aircraft Carriers of over 23,000 tons; Class "A" Cruisers of 10,000 ton; Class "B" Cruisers of over 8,000 tons; Destroyers of over 3,000 tons or Submarines of over 2,000 tons. Similarly there is limitation of the gun calibres of each of the foreign types of ships. Thus no Capital Ship is to have guns of more...
Specific Measures. The White Paper would lay down two new British capital ships and an aircraft carrier, launch five new cruisers, increase Navy personnel 6,000 by March 1937. It would raise four new battalions of British infantry, multiply the present Army's effectiveness several times by costly mechanization, modernize field artillery and anti-aircraft defense. It would increase the Royal Air Force from 1,750 to 2,150 planes, with more than a hint of going on to build up as fast as possible the world's most powerful air force...
Favored by the ladies and their boys as leading aircraft-armaments stocks are Rolls-Royce, Fairey and Hawker-Siddeley. Last week Rolls-Royce was so preoccupied with producing aircraft engines that swank motorists eager to plank down ?1,850 ($9,250) for the new 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce "Phantom III" were told that they cannot expect delivery before February...
...build warboats. The disgusted Daily Herald, after first severely warning its Labor readers that they will probably lose their shirts if they jump into the market now, tantalizingly explained that a nest egg of $2,500 invested one year ago in three ship-building and two aircraft stocks would today have become a tidy little fortune...
...boldest stroke of British policy since the War is the "Eden Diplomacy" of His Majesty's Government in filling the seas around Italy with warboats and naval aircraft (TIME, Sept. 2 & 30). This cramming of weapons into the Mediterranean had the effect of making the League of Nations loom big with new prestige because at Geneva handsome young Anthony Eden gave the impression that if only a few more chips were knocked off the League's shoulder by Italy then Britain would fight. Last week the Mediterranean was still full of British warboats when the House of Commons...