Word: aircrafting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passengers on the motorship Challenger (American South African Line), which arrived last week in Boston from Capetown, told how, in mid-Atlantic near the Equator, they were surprised to see land planes flying about, many hundreds of miles from any land. Presently the watchers sighted a British aircraft carrier and a British cruiser, also a French cruiser. Challenger's passengers then realized they beheld part of the far-flung Allied hunt for Nazi sea raiders...
...fullest use, in the common interest, of both Empires' raw materials, production means, tonnage. Thus, if the French Army needs 6-inch shells worse than the British need anti-aircraft shells, British factories will hustle the former instead of the latter. Or if Britain needs bottoms for Canadian wheat worse than France needs them for Algerian mutton, to Canada they shall...
...many ideas of this specific gravity were sent in that the authorities got to skimming them over rather hurriedly, perhaps missing a few that had some actual value. The story is still current in Britain that in 1915 a gunner submitted a device for plotting the course of attacking aircraft to increase the accuracy of antiaircraft fire. In 1918 he was finally permitted to demonstrate, and his gadget performed so effectively for altitudes up to 16,000 feet that it was adopted forthwith, helped repel the last big German air raid...
...Beisel, chief engineer of the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Company, has been appointed lecturer on Aeronautic Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering, the University announced Saturday...
...Airplanes, parts and motors from planemakers: United Aircraft, $70,000,000; Curtiss-Wright, $60,000,000; Douglas Aircraft, $30,000,000; Lockheed, $6,000,000; Republic Aviation, $4,000,000. Big buyers: France and Britain. Little buyers: Sweden ($4,000,000), Iraq...