Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because nobody said they were bombing planes, a fleet of German military aircraft wheeling over Berlin fortnight ago were mere circumstantial evidence that Aviation Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring had broken the Treaty of Versailles which denies all military aircraft to Germany. Last week, five days before Realmleader Hitler made the treaty a scrap of paper (see p. 20), General Göring gave direct evidence. He announced that Germany has long had a military air force, merged it formally with the Reichswehr, announced himself as "General of the Flyers...
...Baltimore, Glenn Luther Martin's gigantic new Clipper No. 7, laid up for three months because of ice conditions in Chesapeake Bay, got off on a test flight with the biggest load (51,000 lb.) ever carried by a U. S.-built aircraft...
Around Douglas Aircraft Co.'s busy, super-efficient factory at Santa Monica, Calif. have lately been eddying exciting rumors. Whispers were heard of a monster armored air cruiser being built in holy secrecy to make the U. S. top-dog of the Pacific (see col. 2). Fortnight ago part of Donald Wills Douglas' secret got out. To Santa Monica Beach was shipped, in sections, what appeared to be a huge aircraft. Next day when crowds flocked to see it assembled, police and a corps of 100 secret service men drove them back to a nearby cliff, ripped films...
Facts are that in London the National Government is faced by a monster straw poll in which 2,000,000 of His Majesty's subjects have voted by latest returns 92% for arms reduction by the British Empire, 86% for abolition of its military aircraft...
...advent of an air attack in its present form was unforeseen when our existing battleships were designed, but their anti-aircraft armament is being increased to enable them to perform their primary function...