Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested before purchase; where its advance thinking and performance (blind flight, stratosphere, automatic control, radio research) are done; where its medical studies are pursued. Here come all bids for the $337,000,000 expansion program voted in April and June by Congress, which is to bring the Air Corps up to 5,500 first-line planes by 1941. And here, last week on the Air Corps's birthday, was held the chief party in a celebration that spanned the nation...
...indeed got himself in an embarrassing position. Having virtually granted Japan belligerent rights in China in return for the privilege of discussing the Tientsin issue in Tokyo, he last week gave way on the point which originally caused the Japanese Army to blockade Tientsin's foreign Concessions. Last April 9, Cheng Shi-kang, manager of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. Mr. Cheng was neither the first nor the last Japanese hireling to be assassinated, but he was no ordinary puppet. Most of the decrepit Chinese who have sold...
...retreat in good order after dark. Then he got a new command made up of the 9th and another division, the remnants of two more, seven squadrons of French cavalry, one British cavalry division, took them into the joint British-French action that halted the German offensive in early April...
...estate, some into the National Sugar Trust. By the time the Spanish revolution broke in 1936 this grasping old man, now an octogenarian, had so compounded his World War profits that he was able to lend General Franco at least $50,000,000, according to an estimate printed last April in the New York Times...
...Dealers concentrated on gloomy calculations for the crucial second quarter of 1940. They figured on sharp cuts in spending: that WPA under new appropriations would be nearly $250,000,000 under April-June 1939, that PWA outlay, now around $150,000,000 a quarter, would sink to nothing by next spring. In the first half of 1939, although business in general was not booming, nonresidential construction hit a recovery high that exceeded even 1937. For this Government spending was responsible as the figures for contracts let show...