Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gift of nature of which expansive Southern California does not boast is floods. After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90°, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst. The precipitation, 7.26 in., made the wettest early December since 1889, reminded frightened Los Angelenos of their disastrous floods last March (11 in. in five days). Casualty: a ten-year-old boy fell and was knocked unconscious, drowned in a puddle. Wisecrack: Radio Comedian Bob Hope complained that he had been arrested for going through...
...latter part of the World War in Britain's crack Naval Intelligence Division and as "No. 14 S. 2" he was assigned to spot enemy vessels. To aid British pilots in the bombing he made charts of every German fighting ship as it would appear from the air, directly below, at a distance or on the horizon. Dr. Parkes retired from Jane's editorship in 1935 and the job was turned over to another of Founder Jane's oldtime contributors, Francis Edwin McMurtrie...
...hrer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had rearmed Germany to the teeth? or as close to the teeth as he was able. He had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world...
...five years under the Man of 1938, regimented Germany had made itself one of the great military powers of the world today. The British Navy remains supreme on the seas. Most military men regard the French Army as incomparable. Biggest question mark is air strength, which changes from day to day, but most observers believe Germany superior in warplanes. Despite a shortage of trained officers and a lack of materials, the Germany Army has become a formidable machine which could probably be beaten only by a combination of opposing armies. As testimony to his nation's puissance, Führer Hitler...
Dawn Patrol was rushed to completion last autumn during the Munich crisis. Some of its cast, including Actors Niven, Basil Rathbone and Michael Brooke, are reserve officers who expected to be called to the colors before they finished. Most of the air shots in Dawn Patrol were lifted intact from the 1930 edition. Good shot: Courtney, whose minute squadron on the Marne front has been losing a man a day for weeks, reacting with an absent-minded nod, while he reads a newspaper, to the news that an old friend has been killed...