U S Army Air Corps Moves to War Time Plan to Buy 3000 Planes
The U S Army Air Corps on a war time basis plans to buy 3000 military airplanes in two years, train 4000 pilots, recruit 25000 enlisted men and form 87 combat squadrons. Initial 565 aircraft include 400 single seat pursuit planes like the P-36A and XP-40.
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U. S. Army Air Corps
Joseph S. Edgerton
Washington
United States Army Air Corps
Army Air Corps
Congress
Texas Senate approves bill on party leadership parity
In Austin on April 12, the Texas Senate sent to the House a bill creating a male and female chair pair and 31 man and 31 woman members on state executive committees. The measure aims to settle disputes between Dallas Democratic Chairman E B Germany and San Antonio Chair Frances Haskell Edmondson by ensuring opposite sex leadership. Presumably, state conventions will follow.
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Austin
Tex
U.P
E. B. Germany
Dallas
Frances Haskell Edmondson
San Antonio
Texas Senate
House of Representatives
New attack bomber designs join Wright Field testing
Three experimental two engine metal monoplanes from Stearman North American and Glenn L. Martin are under test at Wright Field Ohio. The plan calls for 125 such planes as part of a 50 million program alongside 13 B 17 bombers 13 XFM 1 fighters and 14 Beechcraft photog planes. The program also adds a fourth squadron of four engine bombers and a dedicated high speed interceptor to counter raids. The attack bomber aims to strike supply depots railroads mechanized forces and marching troops while keeping speed at ground and altitude.
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Air Corps
Wright Field
Ohio
Stearman
North American
Glenn L. Martin
Boeing
Time Marches On as Sheriff Thumbs Air
Sheriff Victor Meekins stranded 40 miles from help in MANTEC North Carolina. He signaled with a raised thumb as a red monoplane flew by and then escorted him to Roanoke Island by air.
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Mantec
N. C
Victor Meekins
Meekins
Roanoke Island
First elect a state chairman and set gender balance
The article outlines rules for state party leadership: a male chair requires a female vice chair and a female chair requires a male vice chair. An equal sex membership proposal for precinct and county conventions was rejected. It notes some precincts will bar women from attending conventions. It also compares U S exports and imports with Cuba in 1930 and 1936.
Primitive pestle found in Rochester during WPA project
A WPA worker uncovered a primitive pestle in Rochester New Hampshire during a hurricane rehabilitation effort. The artifact weighs about five pounds, measures 18 inches in length and is roughly the size of a man's wrist, believed to have been used by the Penacook Indians around 250 years ago.
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Rochester
N. H
WPA
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