Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bombers can be downed in two ways: by gunfire from the ground or gunfire from defending planes. Antiaircraft gunnery is soundly organized, having within each combat component (of four guns per battery) an effective detection and warning system, based largely on the fact that big planes can nearly always be heard, and in fair weather can be seen, in time to aim the guns. The one large question mark remaining is accuracy, with which the Army was not primarily concerned last week. Pursuit plane defense is not so soundly organized. Bomber speeds of 250 m.p.h. so nearly equal...
...yearly or monthly production of reasonably effective fighting aircraft. In acceleration of aircraft production Germany has pioneered, led the whole European field and may still be leading, despite frantic efforts to accelerate production by the other great powers, notably Britain. Göring has been to the European war plane what Ford was to the car, and Lord Nuffield is only now entering the air race as Britain's Big Builder...
...calumny and slanderous fabrications that he at once beat all the records of Baron Munchausen. . . . For a long time he has not made any aviation records and as a flier he does not represent anything worth while. . . . The few flights which he is now making in his little plane are now performed in this country by any member of the Aviation Club, any peasant, worker or student...
...centre." This week the Baltimore conference votes on (and is expected to accept) a statement of faith, prepared by Lutheran theologians, which will place their church on record as more liberal than most other Lutheran bodies. Chief point: "We [do not] place all parts of Scripture on one plane. They have their more important and their less important parts, and the measure of their importance must always be the closeness of their relation to Christ, our Lord...
...newsreel cameraman who can fake the best pictures in the trade, and a round-the-world aviatrix who wishes to hunt for her lost brother in the Amazon, is a convenient frame on which to hang a series of thrilling climaxes. These thrills, which include shots of plane crack-ups, burning ships, and devil-dancing Dukas Indians, are enough to make a good picture...