Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After last week's air-raid tests German officials could boast that it takes 4,000,000 Berliners just one minute to clear the streets and scurry into air-raid shelters. A year ago the record was two minutes. Germany claims to have a peerless Air Force. But there is no sure defense against air raids and if Germany starts bombing London the one thing that might worry Berlin is a retaliatory raid. When the first "raid" occurred last week thousands of Berliners were hurrying home from work. Red flares, black flags, and roped-off streets indicated places that...
...face of lovely Paris is pocked with gun emplacements, searchlight batteries, and trenches. Recently a demonstration of air defenses was held in the ditched and tunneled Esplanade des Invalides outside Napoleon's tomb. There are concrete gun platforms on the wooded Meudon and St. Cloud hills where Americans have their villas and restaurants serve cool drinks to heat-weary Parisians. On Mont Valérien, westward across the Seine from the Bois de Boulogne, is an impressive layout of long-barreled guns and searchlights with independent generators. Large railroad station signs, a give-away to low-flying raiders, have...
...rebel against this regime, Charlie is shipped to a concentration camp, from which he escapes in stormtroopers' uniform, is mistaken for the Furor. With the real Furor imprisoned as an impostor, masquerading Charlie is involved by his air minister, Herring, in an aggressive campaign to humble the neighboring State of Vanilla. It is to the people of Vanilla, soon humbled, that old Pantymimist Chaplin makes his first big speech: "I don't want to conquer anybody. I want to do good by everybody. Because-because this is a big world, and there's plenty of room...
Ever since Oct. 24, 1929, crinkle-headed, crinkle-mouthed Crooner Rudy Vallée has spread his oleaginous voice on the air waves for Standard Brands Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Gelatin). Their partnership is radio's longest. Radio's first big variety show made Yale-bred Rudy Vallée (real name: Hubert Pryor Vallée) radio's first big-money performer, began radio's first national song craze (I'm Just a Vagabond Lover), first exploited the radio talents of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford...
Painful to U. S. airlines is the dizzy rate at which transport planes grow obsolete. In 1933 United Air Lines paid $2,500,000 for 55 Boeing 247s. Within six months the new Douglas DC2 outloaded, outsped them. When T.W.A. bought a fleet of DC-2s, United spent $1,500,000 more revamping its Boeings. But Douglas engineers were already mocking-up (building a model) the still bigger & better...