Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until the tribesmen had finished their Spring harvest. Crops were poor. Last week came the attack. Riddled by machine guns, shrapnel, blasted by tons of aerial bombs, the tribes men swept...
...planes dove, not to loose steel and nitroglycerine eggs, but to dump fluttering leaves of peace propaganda. The occasion: International Anti-War Day, held on the 16th anniversary of mobilization for the World War (Aug. 1). At Moscow the climax of the day came when the Volunteer Society for Aerial & Chemical Defense presented the army with 51 Soviet-made fighting planes, purchased through public subscription...
...sailed last week from England for the Faroe Islands in Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic ship Quest. As the British arctic air route expedition, commanded by H. G. Watkins, the group will remain until autumn of 1931, amassing weather data, exploring the ice cap of Greenland, making aerial surveys of the east coast of Greenland and into the far North-all for the purpose of linking England and her Dominion by a direct flying route. From Greenland west, the Canadian Government will conduct surveys over the wilds of Baffin Land...
...fireworks manufacturers last week estimated that U. S. citizens would set off some $4,000,000 of firecrackers, sparklers, roman candles, skyrockets, aerial bombs, pinwheels, squibs, flares, torpedoes, etc. etc. in celebration of Independence Day 1930; in the good old days, a $4,000,000 Fourth of July would have been a very sad Fourth indeed. Fireworks men mourn the time when a piece of punk in the outfield of a baseball park would bring to life a fire portrait of "Theodore Roosevelt, Our President" and cause great huzzahs to shake the bleachers...
...both of these places at least 200 planes were flying together in the formations. These were practically all training planes. "At the close of the Air Corps Maneuvers at Kelly Field, Tex., in May 1927, over 200 service type planes flew in a formation in an aerial review...