Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, the floor and the ceiling would not move toward each other with this progressive precision. From the outset they would be subject to change...
...first move to overcome lagging domestic production and zoom the Royal Air Force up to par with Germany's air fighting strength, Britain's Air Ministry last week ordered from two U. S. concerns 400 planes, valued at $25,000,000. One was the largest foreign aircraft order ever placed with a U. S. firm...
...bombers and fighting planes. Both U. S. contracts are a result of investigations by Britain's air mission, which returned to England fortnight ago after scouting production facilities of U. S. and Canadian concerns. No Canadian contracts were let last week but the Ministry admitted that a move to aid Canadian aircraft production, in line with the mother country's longview program to make the Dominions self-sufficient in their rearmament, would soon be under...
Opposition M. P.s saw in this transfer another attempt by Prime Minister Chamberlain to make himself master in his own house, such as his move six months ago in "promoting" influential Sir Robert Vansittart from Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office to the high-sounding but less vital and specially created post of Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Chamberlain is determined to make his own appointments to these permanent, advisory posts. Sartorially correct, 61-year-old Colonel Sir Maurice, dubbed "Sir Maurice the Immaculate." was far closer to previous Prime Ministers David Lloyd George, James Ramsay MacDonald...
...Lindberghs this week are in Kent, in a big L-shaped, hard-to-heat house composed of an old barn and four old cottages joined together. They rent the place and three acres of ground from Novelist Victoria Sackville-West, but are giving it up this month to move to the French island of Illiec, off the north coast of Brittany. Mme Carrel, who lives most of the year on the neighboring island of St. Gildas, recently secured it for them. With the barren island went a three-story stone house of nine big rooms. Illiec provides all the seclusion...