Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned, the $390,000 contents of Mme Renard's jewel case are either lost in the Congo or stolen by some ignorant black. In Paris last week undertakers mended the seven mangled bodies. This week M. Le Gouverneur General will lie in state with his wife and airmen...
William Faulkner's latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit thesis of Pylon is that airmen are not people, but a race apart, unaccountable, sinister, inhuman. "They ain't human like us. . . . Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip...
...countries have fared little better. France abandoned lighter-than-aircraft after the German-built Dixmude was lost with all hands in a Mediterranean storm in 1923. When Britain's R-101 crashed at Beauvais, France in 1933, wiping out the best of that country's lighter-than-airmen, she ordered the R-100 scrapped, has built none since. Only country to pursue the development is Germany, where the huge Hindenburg is soon to be launched as a running mate to the eminently successful Graf Zeppelin. This summer the Navy plans to lend its Lakehurst plant to the Zeppelin...
...told the story of last summer's balloon journey, in which he and two other army officers attained the altitude of 62,000 feet before they were forced to land. The present world record stands at 11 8-10 miles and was made in 1933 by the Soviet Army airmen...
...moral reparations." His Imperial Majesty Power of Trinity I, reputed descendant of King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, promptly flashed charges to Geneva that it was the Italians who wantonly attacked. He further charged that the frontier cities of Ado and Gerlogubi had been pelted by Italian airmen with bombs. Two days later Geneva newshawks were handed by Italy's local diplomatic mission copies of a blunt, unsigned manifesto from Rome. Couched in the first person, it stated that "I will not" submit to League arbitration of the Ualual Incident. All this African fracas might just possibly...