Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazing thing. Malta, traditionally Britain's "Key to the Mediterranean." had become last week an inviting naval keyhole. In fear of Italian bombing planes, the big British ships normally based at Malta had withdrawn to Egyptian and Syrian waters, leaving in the keyhole only a British aircraft carrier, its complement of battle planes and a few-light destroyers as the best weapons to be left there...
...inch gun cruisers of the Pola class could outduel King George's London class cruisers of similar tonnage and gun calibre because the Italian ships with a speed of 35 knots are from two to three knots faster than their British peers and much better equipped with anti-aircraft guns. After running the long gamut from submarines to capital ships and pulling a long face the whole way, Dr. Parkes comfortably quoted a remark made to him by a distinguished British admiral: "The Italians build better ships than they can fight...
Merchant Nato, realizing that he now knew too much to be safe from assassination if he refused to contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...
Another world speed record was made last week by Major Alexander P. ("Sasha") de Seversky, Russian War ace, inventor, president of the Seversky Aircraft Corp. Accompanied only by his cocker spaniel, Vodka, he sent a 710-h. p. amphibian of his own design over a Detroit racecourse at 230.03 m.p.h., some 39 m.p.h. faster than the old mark. Unlike Record-Breaker Hughes, Pilot Seversky was well satisfied with his new amphibian record. But like Designer Hughes, Designer Seversky began tinkering his plane, muttered: "It'll go faster...
...points. Fifty miles off Italy on the British island naval base of Malta orders from London to erect shelters against air bombs were excitedly obeyed. Some 1,000 troops were ordered to sail from England to bring the Malta garrison up to full strength. Even more ominously the aircraft carrier Furious was rushed full steam from Gibraltar to Malta with three squadrons of planes aboard. These drastic British fighting service moves-considering that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had resumed his soaking & sipping at Aix as though he had not a care in the world-struck Continental observers as illogical, fantastic...