Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National Defense was also relatively uncontroversial. The House last week had up the last of the big rearmament appropriations, $292,695,547 for personnel, new airbases, etc., and to buy 2,290 more planes for the Army Air Corps. The Republicans managed momentarily to strike some $37,000,000 from the bill, on the ground that 1,283 of the proposed ships, intended for reserves, might be obsolete before commissioned. The Democrats rallied, voted the reserve planes back in, passed the whole bill on to the Senate. Striking feature : provision for giving Army pilots their first three months' training...
...diverted $125,000,000, for PWA. But Franklin Roosevelt created the biggest diversion of all by asking Congress to inaugurate a $3,860,000,000, "self-liquidating" public works program on a revolving fund basis outside the Budget. This sweeping proposal threw the whole Relief issue far in the air momentarily...
Luckily for Oliver Naquin, the Navy already knew that: 1) sea water pouring through an open air-intake valve flooded the submarine's rear compartments, and 2) signal lights indicated that this valve was properly closed when the Squalus' last dive began...
...City which is now making the most elaborate preparations against air raids...
...Sagittarius Rising, Anne Lindbergh's North to the Orient, Jimmy Collins' Test Pilot, Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Night Flight. Most imaginative of these was Night Flight (1932), the work of a tall, tilt-nosed 39-year-old French airmail flier for whom the air offers a lesson in man's fate...