Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, having made a quiet but thorough examination of the bombing, Bayonne's Police Chief Cornelius O'Neill came to the conclusion that "that guy" was none other than Sparks Rogers himself, ordered his arrest. The wire used on the homemade bomb, said Chief O'Neill, was the same as that in one of Rogers' radio kits and the note had been typed on an office machine. Lieutenant Doyle recalled that Rogers, who generally opened the bureau's mail, had given him the package and asked him three times during the day to open...
Italian Savoia-Marchetti bombers and German Junkers, with Italian, German and Spanish crews, appeared over Barcelona at altitudes of some 16,000 feet. They were thus nearly invisible, could be only faintly heard, and their bombs were preceded by no warning scream, such as an artillery shell gives. There was just a "swiss" and instantaneously thereafter the crash of 600 pounds of bomb tearing down through floor after floor of a building by its own weight, then the dull, shuddering, colossal detonation from the cellar. In accordance with Douhet, the objective was considered to be the whole city: the shattering...
...accordance with the policy of the Club, this will be the first American presentation of the play, although a private showing was given at the Unity Theatre Club in London. Hodges has also written a radical play called "Where's That Bomb...
...back to his childhood, he explained how a beating when he played hookey from school "made Tom Mooney rebel"; how his activities as an agitator caused San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to take "possession of the District Attorney's Office"; how when the Preparedness Day bomb exploded he and his wife were elsewhere. Said he: "Tom Mooney and Fate were good friends that day. Mrs. Mooney and I were in her studio on the fifth floor of the Eilers Building. A large flag covered the window. We could not see the parade so we went...
When the ingenious Chinese people do not have enough airplanes, or wish to impress the Japanese by seeming to have more than they possess, they build extra planes of reed and matting construction (see cut). These-parked appetizingly in view-have drawn many a Japanese bomb away from real Chinese planes hidden elsewhere...