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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 of the Army Air Corps for the next ten years...
...Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, U. S. N. retired, aircraft designer (Shenandoah, NC-4), onetime chief of navy aircraft design, head of the department of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. (Akron, Macon...
Bewildered correspondents could get no news of the shooting at the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, which they found strangely vacated by club-footed Minister Paul Josef Goebbels and his propaganda staff. Dominant and domineering General Göring, resplendent in an Air Force uniform of his own design, gave out the first official news...
Other honorary degrees were received from President Davis by William Hovgaard, professor of Naval Design and Construction at M. I. T.; William Barstow, president of the Edison Pioneers; William Duane Ennis, professor of Economics of Engineering at Stevens, and Harry R. Westcott, consulting engineer...
...design but largely by chance, Admiral Reeves becomes the first air man to command the Fleet. Usually the Battle Force commander, who will be Admiral Brumby when Admiral Reeves moves up, succeeds to the post of Commander-in-Chief. But Admiral Reeves's appointment does demonstrate the new cohesion between the Navy's air force and its sea fleet. During the Hoover Administration naval aviation was constantly being thrust forward as a unique fighting arm by ambitious, energetic David Sinton Ingalls, just as military aviation was being spotlighted by F. Trubee Davison. President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots...