Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlands' border police last week took into custody Gerrit Albrink, 30, son of a Nazi member of the Dutch Parliament, employe of a German garage owner now serving with the Nazi Air Force. In Albrink's car when he tried to drive into Germany were an assortment of Dutch uniforms-soldiers', railroad guards', postmen's-obviously not intended for a fancy dress ball...
Britain intends to turn out some 3,000 new R. A. F. officers each month, and if real air war starts, 36,000 a year will be none too many for replacement. That the cramped, foggy British Isles are no place to train fliers was suggested by casualty figures released last week: killed in action, 122; killed in training...
Canada is to be Britain's air-training ground. Turning out 12,000 pilots every 28 weeks is to be Canada's big contribution to the war, and this, in the opinion of Anthony Eden, "might well be the decisive factor." The so-called Empire Air Training Plan went into gear last week with the arrival in Ottawa of commissions from Australia and New Zealand. Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation...
...train 12,000 pilots, Canada will need 1,500 ships over & above Britain's war needs. Her infant air industry, though encouraged by a $10,000,000 "educational" order from the mother country last year, is by no means equipped to supply such a quantity. Last week the Empire Training Planners waited only the embargo-lifting vote by Congress to place $100,000,000 worth of orders in the U. S., for 600 light trainers, 900 fighters and bombers. Of this cost, Britain will pay half, Canada onequarter, Australia and New Zealand one-eighth each...
Meantime Canada's air industry, too, will be spurred and expanded. Canada will build bodies into which will go U. S. or British engines. Head of Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd., a company formed to parcel out contracts among its six affiliates, is Paul Fleetford Sise, no airman but chosen on his business record (president, Northern Electric Co. of Canada) as just the right sort of wealthy, urbane, widely acquainted executive to do a Dominion...