Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington, 1,500 businessmen descended on the Capitol in a fleet of taxicabs to tell Congressmen that they must vote for a two-year extension of NRA. In Manhattan William Green of the A. F. of L. roared to 18,000 clothing workers a threat of a general strike if Congress did not vote a two-year extension of NRA. At the White House Franklin Roosevelt came out strongly for two more years for NRA. The Ways & Means Committee of the House obediently prepared to report a bill for NRA extension. And the Supreme Court knocked...
Sentimental Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, last week gave the House of Commons Britain's revised air program, two months after Adolf Hitler had told Sir John Simon that Germany's new air fleet will match France's 1,700 planes. Slow in coming, the British reply was impressive. Last week, while Baldwin explained the bellicose program in principle to the Commons, Air Minister Lord Londonderry gave the House of Lords the details...
...March 1937, the strength of the Royal Air Force based at home, irrespective of the fleet air arm, will be about 1,500 first-line machines. This compares with the actual figure of first-line machines of 580 today and with a total of 840 which we should have reached by March 1937, under the expansion program announced last July. In short, we are nearly trebling the present strength of the Royal Air Force for the defense of the British Isles...
Since reserve planes are usually in a 3-to-1 ratio to first-line planes, this meant a 1937 fleet of about 4,500. Cost: ?30,000,000 ($147,300,000). To man the planes the R. A. F. needs 2,500 more pilots, as well as 20,000 more mechanics, riggers, wireless operators...
...take with him the weak men in the National Cabinet. This meant two in particular: Sir John Simon whose Olympian coldness in human contacts had not served Britain well in foreign affairs; and the Marquess of Londonderry, Air Minister, who should have known that Germany was building an air fleet...