Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 1937, the strength of the Royal Air Force based at home, irrespective of the fleet air arm, will be about 1,500 first-line machines. This compares with the actual figure of first-line machines of 580 today and with a total of 840 which we should have reached by March 1937, under the expansion program announced last July. In short, we are nearly trebling the present strength of the Royal Air Force for the defense of the British Isles...
With his broken arm still in a cast, hulking Premier Flandin held daily bedside conferences with elderly, crop-headed Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin and Governor Jean Tannery of the Bank of France. In 1926 white-chinned old Raymond Poincaré had been able to halt a similar crisis by increasing taxes, by floating a heavy loan on the Government tobacco monopoly. But in national prestige Premier Flandin was no Poincar...
...Duce has not yet said what he will do if the League does right by Ethiopia and indicts Italy for the rape of the dusky virgin to the south. But Europe knows the stormy petrol of Rome well enough to be sure that strong-arm action on the part of Geneva will send the third illustrious guest belting from a party which he considers to be getting too wild to suit his simple tastes. With Italy, Germany, and Japan forming a harmonious trio off in a corner thumbing their noses at the League of Nations, France and Great Britain would...
Early one morning Professional Tennist Vincent Richards was driving through The Bronx. Drowsy or blinded by headlights, he swerved into an electric light pole, clipped it off, demolished his car. Doctors said he had a broken right arm. a broken thigh, a dislocated hip which might end his career...
...welcome" to their startled thanks. While she did not make an epochal innovation, still she sounded a note foreign to this great country where people run up escalators, and are all too used to gulping hamburgers thrown at them with bombshell velocity at quick lunches and "one-arm joints...