Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title, probably "no Count, he." I do not think he would consider himself as France's No. i airman, holds no record that I know of, probably "no France's No. i airman, he." However, he is possibly the best known French pilot outside air circles and this due. to his writings, he also is a helluva nice fellow...
This underlay the sensational proposal, quickly adopted, that the navies of the Americas patrol their seas in a defined "security belt" around all of the Hemisphere but Canada. With the aid of air fleets the ships would police the territorial waters to a distance averaging 300 miles offshore, would bar all European submarines, allow belligerents' surface warships only the legal 24 hours' entry...
From these rigid wartime prohibitions, the Senate exempted only 1) the 20 other Latin-American republics, 2) shipping to nations bordering the U. S. via inland waters, 3) shipping by air and sea within the Western Hemisphere, to any port, of mail, persons, personal effects, and goods to be used exclusively by U. S. vessels. Penalty for violations of any major section of the bill was set at $50,000, five years in jail, or both...
...Food was scarce and hard to get. The average German was nearly always hungry, if he lived on his rations. If he went to a restaurant, he found it crowded and stifling, the shuttered windows keeping out the fresh air. Pork, veal and beef seldom appeared on the menus, but there was plenty of venison, wild pig and wildfowl. Shot on estates and in forests, they would not provide an inexhaustible food supply. These dishes were expensive, but the diner had to take them or else get nothing...
...tobacco up 20%, the beer tax up 14%. It was against the law to ask for a raise in salary or to demand extra pay for overtime. Every able-bodied resident of a German city was required to help pile up sandbags and to assist in building air-raid cellars...