Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...air route from San Francisco to Japan via the Aleutian Islands is 1,700 miles shorter than the route via Hawaii...
...sensing the pressure under which the had been built, anxious to get into the water as soon as possible, H. M. S. Formidable waited only for a crowd to gather, a band to tune its instruments and Lady Wood, wife of Britain's Secretary of State for Air, who was to christen the ship, to clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule, Britannia. Resolutely Lady Wood hurled a bottle of wine after...
Last week's staggering crises, diplomatic reversals, panics, had one plain effect on the Balkans. They sent citizens back to the simple nationalistic faith of their fathers like bombed refugees running for an air-raid shelter. Plain from Lake Balaton to the Black Sea, the trend was plainest in Hungary, where Hungarians had plenty of reasons for uneasiness: their...
...Spain, nearly every historical theatre of battle in Europe might be ultimately involved. Because of the airplane, some quite unhistoric theatres might be involved as well. London, for example, has been safe from assault since William the Conqueror crossed the English Channel in 1066. In the World War air raids on London frightened a few shopkeepers, killed about 5,000, served chiefly to keep 300-odd British planes at home for defense instead of fighting in France...
...this vast near-monopoly is the black-mustached, punctiliously correct Viscount Hambleden, grandson of an office boy who was adopted by the first Smith's son. The present Lord Hambleden is religious, pacifistic, nervous. Last month three raffish young British pilots drew indefinite suspensions from the Royal Air Force after they had released streamers of toilet paper over his Thames Bank estate...