Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today in airplanes-supreme in quality and in numbers." Colonel Johnson declared "the numbers stand about as follows: U. S. (on hand and under construction) 16,000; France 11,000; Russia 10,000; Great Britain 9,000; Germany 8,000; Italy 7,000; Japan 7,000." Listeners knew he must be including every last U. S. airplane, from flivver to biggest Army bomber. They knew also that most airplane records for speed, distance and payload, despite Colonel Johnson's claim to "supremacy," are held by other countries. All this raised the old question: "What good are planes without pilots...
...flyer is good for only four hours [at a stretch]. The process of developing a first-class pilot is three years. The pilot must know meteorology, radio, aerial machine guns, bombs, battle formation. America today needs 100,000 pilots.* Five years hence, our need will be for 500,000 pilots. We need 30,000 planes before this year is out, 5,000 to be utilized in the schools of instruction in every section of the country. Five years hence, our equipment need will be for 100,000 planes...
Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to hibernate, been washed down & down by seeping water to the extraordinary depth at which they were found...
...including Ford's Edsel Ford, Chrysler's K. T. Keller and General Motors' William S. Knudsen were closeted for nearly two hours with President Roosevelt. No one would reveal then or last week precisely what went on, but it was admitted that the President said something must be done to haul the bemired automobile industry out of the slump...
...rule: each round-lot short sale must be made at a price above the last sale-a minimum increase of one-eighth of a point a share...