Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot down another. One of the Belgian ships went down in flames after its crew had bailed out. Britain made an apology, its second in the week for British pilots who apparently had lost their way. (In the earlier instance the apology was for a pilot who dropped a bomb on an apartment in Esbjerg, Denmark, apparently during the raid on Brunsbüttel.) Neutral observers began to wonder whether the navigation training of British airmen, confined to the narrow limits of the British Isles, had been adequate...
...ground and men in the air will work together in the tactical teams that both sides have trained to develop. While artillery is preparing for the advance of infantry, low-flying attack ships will sweep from their airdromes in great flights to batter relieving troops with machine-gun fire, bomb supply trains in the rear areas...
From the Spanish war came rumors of a new air bomb expressly designed not for demolition but to kill personnel. These German-made bombs were said to be light (6 to 60 Ib.) and relatively cheap; even a small bomber could carry and release a great many. The casing was criss-crossed with grooves like a bar of chocolate so that a 10-pound bomb would fly into 800 small, jagged fragments of uniform shape. Many of the fragments fly out horizontally, giving the burst an effect like the circular sweep of a machine...
...Berlin's children there was no evacuation. Schools were closed but children began each day with gas mask drill, prepared, if and when air raids came, to scurry to bomb shelters...
...investors had got the scare out of their systems before the first bomb was dropped by Hitler's airmen on the Vistula bridges. Before the ink was dry on the first war extras, the stockmarket zoomed. One day's listless market (457,890 shares) became peacetime financial history. The next morning as the Germans entered Poland, 1,970,000 shares (1939's daily average 720,072 shares; 1939's biggest day, 2,888,000 shares) changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. War babies (steel, metals, aircrafts) led the advance. Bethlehem Steel, Santa Claus to many a World...