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onsidering that the United States was in the grips of a serious depression and the Midwest food basket was experiencing a drought of biblical proportions, the aviation accomplishments of 1935–40 seem out of place. But the same thing was happening worldwide: The universal mantra was “The biplane is dead. Long live the