Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Northrup A-17s and 17-A attack. Attack planes were first developed by the U. S., combine speed, light bombing, immense firing power to harry bombers and ground forces. Like the Seversky pursuits, the Air Corps' newest attacks-13 Curtiss twin-engined A-18s - were grounded last week by structural or motor trouble. The Northrup A-17s and 17-As have 190 m.p.h. speed, 600-pound bomb capacity, gunfire rate of 4,000 rounds per minute...
...square-mile, cup-like Leftist salient in his central Aragón front lines. This runs from Teruel to the sea. 85 miles away. Some 10,000 Leftists holding the cup were in grave danger of being trapped as Franco forces, behind a punishing artillery barrage and air attack, rolled forward on both sides of the salient. After three days the Leftists backed out, allowed Franco to straighten his lines, which now parallel the vital inland Allepuz to Alcalá de Chivert highway, still in Leftist hands at week...
Doughty President Vargas lost no time in re-establishing the prestige of his regime. Declaring martial law, he started a cleanup. At the Navy Ministry, where the Integralistas had their only success in their well-planned but weakly-executed Putsch, the rebels were quickly dislodged and captured. An attack on the Green Shirt headquarters netted another 300 prisoners, and within 48 hours the jails were jammed with 700 prisoners, 25 Integralistas lay dead in the morgues. At least five Vargas defenders were killed in the attacks...
...fight was simply a fight. A throwback to Stone-Age man is potbellied Tony Galento, Orange, N. J. bartender, who shrugs his chubby shoulders at the fancy art of boxing, scoffs at the modern mode of training. Tony Galento's fighting technique is amazingly simple: His attack is limited to one sweeping motion with his left hand; his defense takes care of itself...
Died. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 89, head of the Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death...