Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist Norman Thomas, visiting Valencia, heard only one shot fired during several hours at the Teruel front trenches. But off the sea just before one dawn came a droning V of Rightist planes. Ninety bombs whistled down in Valencia's worst air raid to date. At least 200 people were killed, about 50 buildings destroyed. Uninjured but considerably ruffled, Socialist Thomas cried: "It was diabolical. I shall take a first-hand report of this to President Roosevelt." Lucky was the little British freighter Pinzon, at anchor in Valencia harbor. A bomb dropped full on her bridge but failed...
Refining the devastating White Spanish technique at the blasting of the Basque "Holy City" of Guernica (TIME, May 10), Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews commanding the Muroc air war, had spotted an outline of Greater Los Angeles on the desert with circles and triangles representing such legitimate combatant bomb targets as munitions plants, railheads, bridges. First blood last week went to Brigadier General Gerald C. Brant's attacking force which theoretically blasted the Douglas Aircraft factory at Culver City to bits...
Left behind at Langley Field, Va. when the GHQ Air Force flew to California, four of the Army's four-engined Boeing "flying fortresses" made a surprise Sunday flight of 1,700 mi., north to Augusta, Me., inland to Rochester, N. Y. and return, with empty bomb racks but full machine-gun crews and equipment...
...Statute of Westminster are just as much the King-Emperor's advisers as England's Baldwin. Invited also was Ireland's gaunt Eamon de Valera, who refused to attend. In Dublin's St. Stephen's Green day after the Coronation a Republican bomb blew the 178-year-old statue of George II off his horse, ripped off both bronze arms...
...Three members of the New York Police bomb squad declared after probing the wreck that they could find no evidence of sabotage...