Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Aircraft made $434,635 in 1935. No comparison with 1934 is possible since United Aircraft is a chunk of old United Aircraft & Transport Corp. The chunk was broken off in the summer of 1934 after the U. S. Government objected to combination of air transport companies with makers of planes and engines. United Aircraft makes Pratt & Whitney engines, Hamilton propellers, Corsair military planes, Sikorsky amphibians. Good customer is Pan American Airways, for whom United Aircraft built the Sikorsky China Clipper flying the new transpacific route (TIME, Dec. 2). Earning 21? a share United Aircraft sold last week...
...wealthy women friends who get 50% commission on orders they put in the way of regular brokers-were chided by the financial editor of Lord Beaverbrook's patriotic Daily Express. Wrote he: "I hear that the 'half commission boys' in the West End are speculating in aircraft shares on behalf of their clients, the ladies. This is always a bad sign...
...aircraft engines...
...aircraft...
...flying above his fighters, directing them by radio. With its ceiling of 23,000 ft., the flagship will be out of range of antiaircraft guns, while its 200 m.p.h. speed will permit it to outrun most existing fighters. Its significance lies in accenting a prime military theory: fighting enemy aircraft with aircraft, not with ground guns...