Aviation Boom As U S Expands War Plane Fleet
Washington lifted the arms embargo and Roosevelt issued cash and carry. Lockheed, Ryan, Consolidated, and Boeing expand on the Pacific and West Coast to fuel a booming aviation industry. By 1941 U S orders rise while foreign demand grows and production scales.
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Gregory Landis
Western
Union
OS . Angeles
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
New York
North Beach
Great Britain
France
Britain
Lockheed
Douglas
Vultee
Ryan
Consolidated
Sam
Pacific Coast
Burbank
Wilhelmina Pursues Peace Despite Red Tape and War
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands champions peace and mediation amid global crisis while shunning pomp and defending Dutch neutrality. The 59 year old sovereign has led since 1890, earning praise as the “Dutch Victoria” for resilience, reforms, and a plain-spoken monarchy.
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House of Orange
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Maryland
Dutch East Indies
Wilhelmina
Leopold
Belgium
Poland
Zuider Zee
Victoria
William III
Emma
The
Countess van Buren
Switzerland
Norway
England
Poland Names Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz as Exile President
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz becomes head of a Polish government in exile based in Paris after Poland’s fall in war. Born in Kutais in Russia’s outposts, he studies law at Dorpat, practices in Minsk, serves as a reserve officer in 1914, and helps organize Polish military forces during the 1917 revolution.
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Russia
Kutais
Raczkiewicz
University of Dorpat
Minsk
Khaki and Courage Save Inn Keeper’s Daughter in 1921 Ireland
Elizabeth Murphy of Queens recounts a July 6 1921 incident in Dingle Ireland during the Black and Tan conflict. A drunken Tan threatened her with a revolver over a remark about khaki pants but a second Tan intervened when gunfire punctured a door hinge. Elizabeth fled with neighbors to safety, crediting the intervening Tan for saving her life.
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Elizabeth Murphy
Queens
N. Y
Elizabeth
Ireland
Emerald Isle
Dingle
County Kerry
Murphy
Mother
Bucko
Tan
Western Newspaper Union
Viking Funeral Ship Found on English Coast at Sutton Hoe
At Sutton Hoe near Ipswich a farmer uncovers what appears to be the ribs of an old ship. Excavators from museums arrive to carefully reveal a complete Anglo-Saxon royal funeral ship believed to date from 1,322 years ago, with artifacts and remains studied to reconstruct its story.
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Sutton Hoe
Orwell River
Ipswich
England
English
Sutton
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Seattle
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North American Aviation, Inc
Inglewood
Calif
General Motors
Princess Juliana
Germany
Prince Bernhard Zu Lippe
Island Park
Molalla
Bidga
Detalla
Rice
Cass St. Roseburg
Oregon
Portland
Stewart
Oregon City
Ore
Photography
OWL Photo Service
Broadway
Fargo
N. Dak
FOX Studios
Billings
Montana
Leggat
Fred J. Beardsley
Grayson S St
Asad
Thomson
Luden’s
Tacitus
Thomas Campbell
Ut Rik
Thomas a’Kempis
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