Word: aire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based upon no other authority than the fact I was an officer in the American Air Service in France for 20 months during World War I, I propose that all who feel similarly inclined buy a pair of knitting needles to commemorate appropriately the forthcoming "Armistake...
...Air-conditioning is a new industry. Yet War-Conditioning is newer still-and older. I wasn't exposed to the 1914-17 program, but I'm already plenty sick of current efforts to condition our minds to the idea that "our part is inevitable" etc. . . . Would Hi Johnson accept the honorary chairmanship of an Anti-War-Conditioning Club...
...must be blamed on some other treaty; and so on, ad infinitum in reverse, until the only thing left for us to blame is the wind which blew the Spanish ships in the path of Francis Drake. So that in the end, here we are, all up in the air, gone with the wind...
Last week, having just returned to inactive status in the Army Reserve (after looking over aircraft production facilities for the Air Corps), Charles Lindbergh could say what he pleased. His associates in the War Department guessed enough of what he wanted to say to ask him not to say it. Some of his few intimates insisted before & after he spoke that Charles Lindbergh is for shipping arms and airplanes to the Allies. If he expected his speech to be so interpreted, he was notably naive. It was as the son of his father that he said...
...wildest week he had seen since he became President of the New York Stock Exchange in July 1938, steady, youthful William McChesney Martin Jr. went on the air, more to sound a warning to reckless speculators than to felicitate brokers on sudden prosperity. Said he: "The Exchange . . . requires that every company listing securities on this market provide essential information as to its operations, earnings and financial condition in order that this may be available for the investor. May I appeal to you earnestly to avail yourself of this factual material...