Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fame and for the money we can make." Thus wrote swashbuckling, 43-year-old Roscoe Turner, wax-mustached dean of U. S. speed fliers, in this month's Popular Aviation. Last week, at Cleveland, Colonel Turner (National Guard), winner of the famed Bend'x transcontinental air race (1933), won the Thompson Trophy classic, world's No. 1 round-&-round air race, for the third time. Like a speed-drunk bumblebee, his fat little, short-winged racer whizzed 30 times around a ten-mile course in 63 min., 42.52 sec.-an average speed of 282.536 m.p.h...
...Britain's Imperial Airways curtailed passenger flights in Europe, but maintained its transatlantic and Empire services. >Recalled from South America by their Governments were the planes of Germany's Lufthansa and France's Air France. Thus Pan American Airways became virtual cock-o'-the-walk on both North & South Atlantic routes...
...Only remaining competitors: K. L. M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines), serving Trinidad and Para-maibo; German-dominated Condor Syndicate, operating in the interior...
...absence of any authentic reports of Allied gains, most papers fell back on vague rumors of food riots in remote Reich cities, discontent deep in the underground chambers of the Westwall fortifications (". . . Dugouts are crammed with munitions ... air is foul ... a shortage of food. . . ."). An anonymous physician, just back from Germany, was quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler was under an alienist's care for paranoid manic-depression...
...Germans got around to doing the same. A prayer and a proclamation were issued by Dr. Friedrich Werner, who, in order to hold his job as head of the German Evangelical Church, must lick contemptuous Nazi boots. Excerpt from the prayer: "Bless our armed forces on land, sea and air. Bless our actions and labors on the German land and bless and protect our Führer as you have hitherto blessed and preserved him. ..." Excerpt from the proclamation: "Let us ... as good Christians, courageously and trustfully, go forward in the path of obedience which war has ordained...