Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last November Director Vidal canvassed all civilian pilots, mechanics and student pilots (about 35,000) on their attitude toward a small plane if it could be volume-produced and sold for about $700. The response was enthusiastically in favor...
...week Mrs. Dorothy Thompson Lewis arrived in Berlin, and as a representative of the Saturday Evening Post put up at the Adlon. Her registration blank went from the hotel to the police, from the police to the secret service. In a few hours a very polite young man in civilian clothes arrived with his hat in one hand and an official letter in the other. It might or might not have been signed by Paul Joseph Goebbels, but it did ask Mrs. Lewis to leave Germany within 24 hours. If she desired, she might have an additional 24 hours leeway...
...Civilian Conservation Corps...
Thus last week did the special committee investigating the Army Air Corps sum up its conclusions based on three months of closed hearings in which 105 military, naval and civilian aviation experts appeared as witnesses. The twelve-man committee, headed by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, published its findings in an 86-page report to Secretary of War Dern. Keynote of the report was a section in which the committee belittled the possibility of air invasion...
...Great Powers, though invited to be present by Speaker Göring, stayed home to a man. But except for the gaping diplomatic box the rest of Kroll Opera House was pack-jammed. Tramp, tramp, tramp, the brown-shirted Deputies marched to their orchestra seats. The lone little man in civilian grey in a front seat was Deputy Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, onetime "Hearst of Germany'' before Nazis regimented the Press. Smartly the Reichstag aisles were closed by S. S. Storm Troops, pistols on hips...