Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worked with the late Count Zeppelin in converting the clumsy blimp into the streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where she was promptly rechristened Los Angeles. After that, he built the Count Zeppelin for commercial purposes. Now, in his 60's Dr. Eckener carries his six feet as straight as does...
...certain Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I feel like turning anarchist and throwing a bomb in the cellar...
...able to announce that its efficient police-spies had tracked down the bombers. One, stated to be Colonel Georgi Nikolaevich, a onetime officer in the White Russian Army of Baron Wrangel, was chased by O. G. P. U.-ers and shot through the heart as he fled. The other bomb heaver, unidentified, was taken alive in the suburbs of Moscow through the aid of loyal peasants who betrayed his hiding place...
...time were 50 oppositionists, 38 of whom at once recanted and protested their absolute submission to the Dictator. Last week these recanted trucklers to Josef Stalin were allowed to return from exile and were readmitted to the Communist Party. Chief of the three dozen is Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and onetime Director of the Third International, the . Moscow bureau devoted to the propagation of the World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...could say with certainty in whose hands the city actually lay. It had previously been evacuated (TIME, June 11) by the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who retired to Mukden, Manchuria, and lay there, last week, nigh to death from wounds inflicted by an assassin's bomb...