Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Air Ministry announced that it has asked the French Government for the use of airports in southern France as "practice stations" for the Royal Air Force. The United Kingdom, it was said was too small for the speedy, long-range bombers Britain is building. From the bomber stations in the English midlands to the tip of Scotland and back, for instance, is a distance of only 1,000 miles. Practice or not, however, the British did not mind the conclusion that the planes would be a demonstration of Anglo-French military solidarity. Said the London Times: "There...
...little news to discuss, ridiculed the "democracy-manufactured" crisis over Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, and made fun of the "'war of nerves" which the French and British Governments had professed to believe was beginning. In fact, official Germany last week-end put on a complacent air of studied inactivity...
Across the China Sea and far into the interior of Asia, 2,200 miles away, at Chungking, China's temporary capital, the atmosphere seemed brighter, even though half the people had left the city in fear of air raids. There were several mass meetings and the damaged and scarred city blossomed out in a new coating of war cartoons and slogans pasted on the walls of half-ruined buildings. That night Japanese bombers came over again in the moonlight, killed 50 persons in the city and damaged the British gunboat Falcon lying at anchor in the Yangtze...
...Foreigners report an improvement in Chinese fighting technique. Chinese trenches are no longer individual pit-holes, but are long, connected "Western style" ditches. Furthermore, Chinese troops are now transferred by night instead of day, as they used to be, and hence are not so severely bombed from the air. Machine-gunning by the new Japanese recruits is reported as bad, while the percentage of Japanese artillery duds on all fronts is rising...
Into thousands of British homes each month goes the creepy A. R. P. News, the "National Journal of Air-Raid Precautions." The magazine offers its readers such helpful articles as "Defense Against Fire," "Removing an Insensible Person (with rather astonishing ease)," "Decontamination of Materials," "The Romance of Cement," and "High Explosive Bombs and Their Effects...