Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference for the funeral of King George. For the experts spoke the First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Monsell. He assented to 35,000 tons as the capital ship maximum; asked reduction to 14 in. of the present 16 in. gun calibre maximum on such ships; urged that aircraft carriers be cut from the present maximum of 27,000 tons with 8 in. guns to 22,000 tons with 6.1-inchers. Continuing, Lord Monsell proposed that further building of London Naval Treaty "A" Cruisers (10,000 tons) be postponed for five years; that distinction between light cruisers and destroyers...
...Douglas with a set of radical aeronautical ideas which he persuaded Transcontinental & Western Air to back. Out of that collaboration rose the DC-1, a 9-ton, twin-motored, low-wing monoplane which revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously, the little Douglas factory at Santa Monica, Calif., grew into the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant...
Successful completion of this course brings an appointment as naval aviator; the remainder of the four year period must be spent in active service in the aircraft squadron of the United States feel...
...blatant fashion last week bull-necked Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring divulged the secret that Great Britain, in assenting to German violation of naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME. June 24), assented also to violation of its air clauses. Germany is to lay down in 1936 aircraft carriers totalling 47,000 tons and construct squadrons of torpedo seaplanes as large as Pan-American Transpacific Clippers...
...present-a summons from the Securities & Exchange Commission to show cause why he should not be suspended from all U. S. exchanges in which he holds memberships. SEC had reason to suspect that Mike Meehan was up to his old tricks, this time not in Radio but in Bellanca Aircraft Corp. listed on the New York Curb Exchange...