Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pink of optimism. He exuded confidence that the U. S. and Britain will soon see the justice of Japan's three main and simple aspirations: 1) Scrapping of the ratio system to give Japan "equality." 2) Scrapping by the Great Powers of such "primarily offensive" weapons as aircraft carriers. 3) Retention in good standing of such "primarily defensive" weapons as submarines...
Hitherto General Mitchell has confined his barbs largely to the Army air service. Last week he took a few potshots at the Navy as well. The Navy's aircraft carriers, said he, were "floating bombshells." The Shenandoah and Akron disasters were due to "gross stupidity" and "disgraceful" incompetence. For lighter-than-air craft in general he had the highest regard. Fifty dirigibles competently handled, he declared, would need only two days to destroy Japan, which he described as "our greatest enemy...
Secretary Dern's order relieved General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps, from command of practically the entire combat air force, restricting his command in future to personnel training and aircraft procurement. Directly in control of the new combat force will be General Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff. Actual command of the GHQ Air Force probably will go to Brigadier General Charles H. Danforth of Langley Field, onetime Assistant Chief of Air Corps, who was expected to be upped in rank to major-general...
...From 1930 to 1933 United Aircraft & Transport Corp.'s business in Germany totaled $59,000. In 1933 it jumped to $272,000, and in the first eight months of 1934 to $1,445,000. Biggest German purchases: unmounted Pratt & Whitney engines. The Senate committee promptly concluded that United was helping Germany rearm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. But "it was not the understanding" of United officials that their German sales were for military purposes...
Early in the investigation, a Driggs armament salesman brought the name of George V into the limelight by insisting that His Britannic Majesty had intervened personally in an attempt to swing a sale of anti-aircraft guns to Poland from Driggs to Vickers. Even before Britain had recovered from its shocked horror at this statement other big names came tumbling out into the open. In a few days other arms salesmen had dragged in: Edward of Wales (obstructing Curtiss-Wright sales to South America); Herbert Hoover (as an antidote for H. R. H.); President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez...