Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other power politicking of the week: > Air Marshal Italo Balbo, not to be outdone by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, interrupted his direction of Libya's war preparations last week to pay a visit to neighboring Egypt. In interviews with the press and King Farouk the bearded Marshal professed friendly sentiments for Egypt, but just to be on the safe side Cairo planned a mock air-raid and black-out after he had gone...
Britain. In the House of Commons, War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, during a debate on Britain's new mobilization procedure, announced new preparedness measures: British Army, Navy and Air Force reserves are to be called for one to six months' service for special training and to bring His Majesty's armed forces up to war strength, ready "if necessary to take the field at short notice." Said dramatic Mr. Hore-Belisha: "It is a time when the nation must sleep on its haversacks...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco held at Barajas Field, some eight miles from Madrid, a final review for the German, Italian and Spanish airmen who fought on his side in the war. Wearing the blue-grey uniform of the Spanish Air Force, flanked by his usual mounted Moorish guards, El Caudillo took the salute from 1,500 Italians of the Littorio Legion, 5,000 Germans of the Condor Legion, 3,500 Spaniards. To 15 German and eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present...
...whole Germany's agricultural situation is no better and no worse than it was in 1914. But one thing has changed very much for the worse: the fuel oil needs for a modern mechanized army and air service. In the event of a major war Germany will need 15 to 20 million tons of oil a year. The entire annual yield of the nearby Rumanian fields, assuming Germany could and would quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism...
...about 1870 railroad rails were made of iron because the cost of making steel in quantity was prohibitive. Then the converters invented by Henry Bessemer got going and steel became much cheaper. In Bessemer converters-little changed after 70 years-a powerful blast of air is forced through molten pig iron as it lies in the converter's capacious belly. The air oxidizes impurities which form a slag or pass off as gases through the converter mouth. After the slag has formed, the steel is poured into molds to make ingots...