Word: combating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More startling to most delegates was a revelation by General Secretary Walter Citrine of the T. U. C. that the organization has been actively spending its funds to combat Fascism, chiefly in Germany and Austria. Mr. Citrine refused to say how much the T. U. C. has spent in Germany. In Austria, he declared. ?44,000 ($220,000) has been spent for "relief" and ?46.000 in fighting the Austrian Nazis...
...years Dr. Benjamin Baker ("B. B.") Moeur (pronounced More) was family physician to thousands of people in the countryside around Tempe, Ariz. A hefty, wrinkled-faced man, with a gruff manner and a heart of gold, he talked turkey to his patients, drove miles through the darkest weather to combat indigestion or bring babies into Salt River Valley. Even when in 1932, the wheel of political fortune boosted him from the role of family doctor to Governor of Arizona, he never expected to become the centre of an international incident...
...Corps' present strength: "The existing strength in personnel and airplanes is inadequate to meet the Army requirements of the national defense. There is faulty distribution and utilization of existing airplanes in that an undue proportion are rendered unavailable for combat training and fighting purposes...
...Corps, is short of modern armament, equipment and transportation, as well as an adequate munition reserve." Nevertheless: "In military aviation . . . the U. S. stands second of the great powers insofar as total numbers of Army and Navy airplanes are concerned. . . . However, the fact is clear that . . . our Army combat aviation appears to have been allowed to fall below other leading aviation powers of the world in strength. . . . The fear that has been industriously cultivated in this country by various zealots that American aviation ... is inferior to that of the rest of the world as a whole is unfounded...
...training in night, instrument, radio beam and bad weather flying. ¶ A minimum of 2,320 airplanes for Army peacetime requirements. Present number: 1.500.* ¶ Development of a 1,000-h.p. liquid-cooled Diesel engine. ¶ Immediate organization of an independent "General Headquarters Air Force." composed of all tactical combat units of the Air Corps under a separate commander. ¶ An annual aircraft procurement program for Army & Navy with purchases by three methods: design competition, negotiated contract and competitive bidding. ¶ As a final recommendation the Baker committee suggested that its report be used as a basis for development...