Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife. Let us make no mistake about the cost of entering this war. . . . Munitions alone will not be enough. . . . We are likely to lose a million men, possibly several million. . . . And our children will be fortunate if they see the end in their lives...
...trainees are all civilians, most are collegians. They will be taught to fly by commercial air schools, at a cost to the U. S. of $290 to $310 per student. When they graduate, they will be far from qualified as military pilots, but most of them should rate private pilots' licenses (allowing them to fly themselves and passengers for fun, do no flying for hire). But C. A. A.'s fledglings, with the rudiments of flying will be far better material for the Army and Navy air corps than total greenhorns...
...Prize that Walther von Brauchitsch had won for Germany was, from a military standpoint, well worth its cost in men and machines. "At almost the precise moment" that England blockaded Germany, as Field Marshal Goring remarked last fortnight, Germany got her hands on Poland's rich coal fields. Poland's production of 36,000,000 tons a year will increase the Reich's coal supply to some 220,000,000 tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little...
...months ago the pinwheel brain of U. S. industry's most whimsical and unpredictable inventor threw out another spark. Convinced that what the U. S. needs and wants is a good, low-cost, small plane, mop-haired, 59-year-old William Bushnell Stout decided to re-enter aviation. Already mocked-up last week in his faded yellow Stout Engineering Laboratories in Dearborn, Mich, was a snug two-seater slated for mass production at about $3,000. (Specifications: four cylinder, 75-h.p. motor, 450-mile cruising range, tricycle landing gear, controls so limited that the pilot will not be able...
...family (two sons) Herbert Clark Hoover added a foster son, one Ramon Garcia Alvarez, 11, whom the ex-President will support at a cost of $9 a month in a Spanish refugee colony near Biarritz, France...