Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slogan of International Business Machines Corp., and last week I. B. M. representatives showed the commissioners a gadget which will make them think plenty. I. B. M. Radiotype Division General Manager Walter S. Lemmon rigged on the roof over the commissioner's hearing room a temporary aerial, demonstrated a typewriter on which the keys click in response to radio impulses, picked up a message typewritten through the air from a Georgetown laboratory. Engineer Lemmon told the commission that one television station wavelength assignment would be roomy enough for 1,125 radio-typewriter channels, asked that his company be assigned...
Next day, almost in answer to Mr. Chamberlain's expectations, two more British vessels were sunk. The freighter Thorpeness, was hit by an aerial torpedo from a Rightist plane outside Valencia harbor, went down with 7,000 tons of grain. The freighter Sunion, formerly of Greek registry, was showered with incendiary and explosive bombs, burned for six hours and sank...
...against the attack on the French hospital, both of which were politely filed away by the Tokyo Foreign Office. Japan's real reaction was, as usual, expressed by the Navy. In Shanghai, the chief of the Navy's Press Department. Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, announced that Japanese aerial bombardments would continue. He expressed "satisfaction with the progress of military operations" to date and assured that "our aviators are doing their best to avoid hitting non-combatants...
Britain and Bombs. At Burgos, Spanish Rightist capital. British Agent Sir Robert Hodgson informed Generalissimo Franco's Government of His Britannic Majesty's Government's "horror" at civilian losses in Leftist Spain. At Tokyo, British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
...outset, Generalissimo Francisco Franco received enough planes from Germany and Italy to down enemy aviation, to facilitate his 3½-months' drive to Madrid. Then the aerial tide turned. In October and November 1936, Russian planes of the American Boeing type- nicknamed "chatos" (snub-nosed) by Madrilenians-had arrived in such numbers that in the following two months Leftists eliminated the fierce aerial bombing of Madrid, stopped two strong Rightist offensives. Then early this year, Franco's augmented air force blasted a bloody path for his march to the sea, splitting Leftist territory in two this spring...