Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy's first accidents in fiscal 1931 occurred last week at Philadelphia?a freak crackup. Three flyers took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
...connection: the first "endurance"? flight-no refueling ship was then known: in September 1918, U. S. Naval Air Station at Killingholme, England, a N.C. 2, two Liberty-motor flying boat, Curtiss type, built at Naval Aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Four men, oil, fuel, water, armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew continuously overhead eight hours-record at that time. This experiment was made, and successfully too, for the great effort to bomb Heligoland-Kiel Canal, never attempted due to British...
...prejudices which enveloped their trials the cases of Mooney and Billings became celebrated throughout the U. S. Committees of Liberals were formed to get them out of jail. Investigation proved that the State's witnesses at the trials-persons who said they saw Mooney and Billings at the bomb scene-had perjured themselves. The judge and juries in the two cases recommended release. Mooney at San Quentin and Billings at Folsom insisted on nothing less than pardons to vindicate them. Again and again it was claimed they had been convicted for their radical beliefs...
...crimes of violence. . . . The deliberated and fiendishly-prepared-for crime of Preparedness Day was in all human probability conceived and carried forward to its execution by the same evilly disposed individuals whose friend and associate Billings had been. . . . If he himself did not prepare and plant the deadly time bomb, he and his intimate associate and co-defendant Mooney knew who did prepare and plant that bomb...
...Bedford, Pa., Russell Lybarger, 18, chiseled at a Civil War bomb which the Lybargers used as a doorstop. The bomb exploded, mangled Russell Lybarger's hand...