Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would take a Soviet spy ring to discover when the H.A.A. ticket booth is not crowded and hot and stuffy...
...people, many of them employes seeing other jobs than their own for the first time, many of them local bigwigs, herded through a mile and a half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance as they braided a dun cotton cover on wire, a spark tester ring a buzzer when it found flaws in insulation, pencil- size copper wire drawn through a diamond slot to hair thickness at 120 m.p.h. Most interesting sight to reporters: Far from being distracted, proud workers spruced up more than usual, speeded production, decreased waste...
Often a jest by the ebullient Göring reflects what he knows to be in the mind of his friend Hitler, who seldom jokes. To the solemn Führer it is an unanswerably simple proposition that Britain should be willing to give him tit for tat. Tat is the Treaty of 1935 by which the German Navy was limited to 35% of the size of the British Navy, plus the Treaty of 1937 by which qualitative limitation of the two navies with respect to each other was fixed. Tit would be the ratio at which, after diplomatic trading...
Almost certainly Hitler and Göring think air power will soon have made sea power obsolete, but they know the British Admiralty is full of crusty heroes ready to swear that "By gad, Sir, none of your dashed bombers has ever sunk a modern capital ship and they haven't taken Madrid. The Navy is still the Navy, Sir, and England is still England." In that atmosphere, which seems very favorable to modern Germans, an air pact conceivably may be signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers...
...rapidly each great power is increasing its 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...