Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booming new aspect of national defense prompted Franklin Roosevelt in this appointment. Puerto Rico is to become to the Caribbean defense area what the Navy's strongly fortified Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is to the Pacific: the Navy is installing a $9,300,000 submarine and air base there; the Army planning to spend some $20,000,000 on air bases, antiaircraft, garrisons...
...Military aviation is one of San Antonio's biggest industries. Randolph Field, "West Point of the Air," is there. Maury Maverick was for consolidating the Army & Navy's air forces into a third major arm of national defense...
...Artillery fire caused 70% of the gunshot wounds (compared to artillery's 10% in the Civil War, when small arms caused 90% of wounds). As in all armies, the infantry in the World War had the highest casualty rate; aviation along with ordnance the lowest (only 8% of Air Corps personnel are pilots...
...Flying Crimsonites will compete for the titles against M. I. T., Yale, Williams, Smith and other Eastern colleges under the auspices of the National Intercollegiate Flying Club and the rules of the National Aeronautic Association and the Civil Air Authority...
Among the events will be paper-strafing bomb dropping, a photography race, and other tests. The officials for the meet will be drawn from professional pilots, and representative of the Civil Air Authority...