Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--After only 16 minutes of debate and without a dissenting vote, the Senate today passed and sent to conference with the House a national defense bill authorising expenditure of $66,800,000 for establishment of 16 strat- egically-located naval air bases...
...more reassuring was the Government's own ARP (Air Raids Precaution) work last week. At the Admiralty, War Office, Home Office, Works Department and Scotland Yard, men worked three eight-hour shifts. Basements were reconstructed as living quarters, electric kitchens installed, stores of food laid in. Every doorway has been gasproofed and rooms and passages have been equipped with bulkhead doors...
...roar around Brooklands racing track all by himself. Back in Iraq, he bought one flashy car after another-among others a supercharged, 150-horsepower Auburn with three-inch royal crowns on its doors, a Mercedes done in phosphorescent paint. Before long his craving for speed got him into the air, where he loved to stunt. He took delivery last month on a 200-m.p.h. British plane...
Meanwhile the Vatican, already equipped with gas masks, selected a shelter in which the Pope of Peace will take refuge in case of air raids: a low, round, 15th-Century tower with walls 15 feet thick at the bottom, lined with steel...
...America will probably emerge as dictator of the world after a war, especially if she remains neutral. Even if she comes in, her position will have her. She is not exposed to air-raids. Most Americans don't realize what a war in Europe will mean. It will destroy our whole social fabric...