Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British statesmen so often find useful in masking their intentions, the Government created a sensation by announcing that several units of the Mediterranean fleet which went home for King George's Jubilee Review were preparing to steam back to their stations ominously led, "a week early," by the aircraft carrier Furious...
...made before his message: In March John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave away 85,000 shares of Socony-Vacuum Oil valued at $1,090,000; in May Charles S. Woolworth, 20,000 shares of F. W. Woolworth valued at $1,200,000; Frederick B. Rentschler, 20,000 shares of United Aircraft valued at $270,000; Samuel Zemurray, 1,500 shares of United Fruit valued at $130,000. And whether these gifts went as tax avoidance to private heirs or as public benefaction to charitable institutions was not to be deduced from the SEC records...
...plane at such a price is possible, told a conference of the National Association of Aviation Editors last week that the development of a $700 plane had not materialized because the $500,000 allotment promised by PWA had been withheld as a result of the activities of an aircraft manufacturers' lobby. Many light plane manufacturers believe Mr. Vidal is "chasing rainbows," resent his "flivver plane" program because they feel it causes sales resistance to the present product...
...manufacturer, Edward Porterfield of Kansas City, undertook last week to tell Mr. Vidal "the facts of life about the aircraft business." Mr. Porterfield's complaint: "I'm strong for the $700 plane when it comes, but we haven't got it and I don't believe in kidding the public instead of inspiring confidence in present planes...
Most modern aircraft use two kinds of brakes: wheel-brakes on the ground, and "air brakes" (wing flaps) to reduce flying speed. Last week a third kind of brake was being tested on Pan American Airways' big transoceanic Clipper Ships...