Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ante). And last week Groupers told the Press about one of their most spectacular conversions to date. A textile manufacturer of Rotterdam named Dr. Roessingh, said they, lost his fortune when England went off the gold standard. Turning his talents to invention, he produced an incendiary bomb which military experts declared one of the world's deadliest. He war offered $140,000 for the formula. In Switzerland he attended a Group house party, was "changed." God, said he, and last week the Manhattan Groupers, had guided him to destroy the plans for the incendiary bomb...
...have little hope that the postponed journey to Dessye with Emperor Haile Selassie will be more colorful than a highly interesting Cook's tour, with no possibility of seeing action, since the correspondents, whom Premier Benito Mussolini does not want harmed, presumably will be an effective bodyguard against bomb attacks on the Emperor's party...
Dictator Mussolini, although his Charter of Labor may have made possible one of the great compensation suits in the history of international reporting, has nonetheless carried the U. P. well over the bump of losing the kingpin of its Rome office. From the first shots and bomb thuds, U. P. European Manager Webb Miller has been flying the front with Premier Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano...
...runway at Wright Field, Dayton, one day last week roared the huge Boeing 299, largest landplane ever built in the U. S., on a routine test flight for a possible Army contract (TIME, July 15). Because the 70-ft., metalclad monster with its four machine-gun turrets, 6-ton bomb capacity and speed of 256 m.p.h. was regarded as the greatest battle plane ever designed, two young officers, Lieutenants Leonard F. Harman and Robert K. Giovannoli, looked up with interest as it fled past them down the field. Suddenly, when the four-motored plane was nearly...
Because of the steep slopes on either side of the railway line any Italian plane attempting to bomb the bridge must fly low directly overhead. Whittley arranged his guns in star-shaped formation with sights screwed tight and set for an imaginary point just above the centre of the bridge. Providing the Ethiopian soldiers remembered where the triggers were at the right moment, they were sure to pink any plane that entered the field of fire...