Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Count Ciano is an ace only as usage has pinned the title to such able airmen as Charles A. Lindbergh. Henceforth TIME will adhere to current military standards, bestow the rank only upon flyers who down five enemy planes and prove...
...understatements and euphemisms in three languages went on last week, a distinct possibility grew that, as in 1914, the talented Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Premiers, Presidents and Kings of Europe may find to their genuine surprise and dismay that a situation has been created calling for their soldiers, sailors and airmen...
...world depopulated by interplanetary warfare, dominated by a monstrous chicken, consumed by bugs, perishing in foul air. In Things to Come mankind endures 30 years of war, a plague called the Wandering Sickness, a return to quasi-feudal society. After 1970, things pick up somewhat. A group of airmen band together, enforce peace and exercise a benevolent despotism. But by 2055, another revolution against peace, order and progress has broken...
Edda, the Dictator's favorite child, gave her chubby husband, young Count Galeazzo Ciano, to the war in its earliest phase and he dropped upon Aduwa from his battle plane the historic bombs which began the conflict. Also airmen at the front are the Dictator's two elder sons, Vittorio and Bruno, and last week, after dropping bombs, each received Ethiopian bullets in the tail of his plane for the first time...
...days 15 hr. 51 min. Two years later, embittered over his failure to get rich, he took off on his second round-the-world flight-alone, without even a parachute or life-raft. Seven days 18 hr. 49 1/2 min. later he was back in New York. Airmen the world over agree it was the outstanding individual feat in aviation history, second to none...