Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miners used used a cave in the cliff for a battery room and for a bomb proof shelter during the blasts. the specimens that are now being arranged for exhibition are largely specimens of feldspar quartz and spodumene. A number of specimens of pink afatite, a rare formation of granite, were found...
...Bomb-throwing celebrations in Portugal...
...spectators got their money's worth. When a bomb started the race, the pilots swooped into the air like bullets. The machines seemed to flash across the course. On the last heat, in going round the pylons the pilots banked so sharply that they seemed to rest in the air on their wing tips...
Seven Martin bombers at an altitude of 3,000 feet attacked the Virginia with 1,100-lb. bombs. Eleven missiles were dropped. All except two fell within 300 feet of the ship. One, the fourth, made a direct hit, sweeping away the basket mast and all three funnels. Within half an hour from the time the first bomb was dropped the Virginia turned turtle and went down, stern first. It was then apparent that severe damage had been done within the hull...
...first time smoke screens laid by aeroplanes were used in the attack. Twice screens were laid down, 600 feet high and a mile long. The largest bombs used in the attack weighed 2,000 lbs. The Army has a bomb twice the size, which is being manufactured. General Patrick announced that a new photographic or telescopic sight is also being perfected which should materially increase the accuracy of air bombing. The deadliest warefare is yet to come...