Word: bomber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People on the American Farmer, which rescued 29 from the torpedoed British freighter Kafiristan, told about a British light bomber, the U-5-K appearing from nowhere while the submarine still lay by watching the rescue. A half-dozen men were on the U-boat's deck when the diving plane raked it with machine-gun fire. The submarine dived frantically, perhaps with its conning tower still open. The bomber, swooping twice again, dropped charges which almost certainly demolished the U-boat...
...that Louis had set up such a high pugilistic standard that for him anything short of a one-round knockout was a big black demerit, applauded his prowess. In 43 professional fights-since the night in 1934 when he got $50 for knocking out one Jack Kracken-the Brown Bomber has been defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked out all but seven of his opponents, including five onetime world's champions (Braddock, Camera, Baer, Sharkey, Schmeling), has successfully defended his title eight times in the past two years. This record gives Joe Louis a fisticuffer...
...Martin and Douglas are working on 315 bombers for France, Lockheed has turned out about 6.5% of its 250-ship bomber order for Britain, and only North American had nearly completed its foreign orders (basic trainers and combat ships for France and England...
...strategy: how strong is France's Maginot Line, Germany's West Wall? How long can Poland hold out? How menacing to Britain are Germany's submarines? How strong are Britain's air defenses? Last week each move of each division, each flight of each bomber, the torpedoes that found their marks, the four-inch, six-inch, ten-inch, 14-inch, 16-inch shells that screamed overhead, added their small sums to the totals that would give the great answers...
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...