Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officer, two civilian observers, 22 enlisted men were dead below. Most of the bodies were found, as expected, in the after torpedo room. One of the 26 who went down was missing, presumably washed overboard while the Squahis was being raised and towed. After inspecting the chamber, odorous with old death, Lieut.-Commander Charles B. Momsen said they must have drowned swiftly and mercifully, too quickly even to reach for the Momsen "escape lungs" which he invented. Commander Momsen also observed that the Navy could improve its arrangements for salvage after future submarine disasters...
...civilian flier who was highly pleased by C. A. A.'s announcement last week was a cream-&-coffee-skinned Negress of 29. There is small chance that Willa Beatrice Brown will ever fly for the Army or Navy, but as Secretary of the National (Negro) Airmen's Association and one of the few Negro aviatrices holding a limited commercial license, she has labored mightily to whip up interest in flying among Negroes, get them a share in C. A. A.'s training program. She runs Brown's Lunch Room at Harlem Airport near Chicago, is partner...
...starts the size of a nation's air force would be the monthly capacity of its factories. Last week plants like Martin and Lockheed were hiring men as fast as they could be interviewed. They were not greatly worried about a shortage of skilled mechanics because army and civilian schools were turning them out by the hundreds. Black-browed West Pointer president Jack Jouett of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, who knows the capabilities of U. S. Aircraft factories as well as he knows where to find the throttle in any military airplane, calculated that within six months...
...Civilian casualties from air raids present a gruesome but not a professionally difficult problem to medicine. Nowadays medical treatment for civilians in wartime is primarily a problem in organization, and to doctors air raids mean nothing more than a monstrous epidemic of chest, neck and skull wounds, of broken arms, legs and backs. Furthermore, while an ordinary epidemic catches doctors unawares, this era's doctors have had plenty of time to prepare...
...John Henry Hebb of the Ministry of Health and President Colin D. Lindsay of the British Medical Association began working feverishly on medical A. R. P. When war came last week they had mapped detailed plans down to the last patch of adhesive tape for the treatment of bombed civilians. Far more flexible and expensive than the French and German plans for civilian medical care, the British war system will cost ?27,000,000 and guard the health of citizens more vigilantly than in times of peace...