Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department the very greatest pleasure to place at the disposal of the Army Air Corps a few of the naval patrol flying boats, for your brother service has viewed with sincere appreciation the difficulties experienced by the Army pilots in flying out of sight of land to discover and bomb the Mt. Shasta. . . . The Naval Aviation Service will be glad either to guide and convoy the Army bombers to and from the target or, if necessary, even undertake the entire mission of finding and destroying by bombs the old hulk...
Stung by this ridicule, Colonel Roy Kirtland, Langley Field commander, spurned the Navy's assistance. Said he: "The Army taught the Navy how to bomb ships. With any sort of visibility we can locate our target unaided...
...also wonder why all this has happened. Is it because of the so-called 'inflammatory bomb' which I incorporated in my discourses of last year which the Columbia Broadcasting System wanted me to omit from the 'Prosperity Sermon.' ... I wonder if any outside pressure has been brought to bear upon the Columbia Broadcasting System by a few bigots whose minority organization figures to bulldoze the people of America and who now hope to tamper with free speech? . . . The fact still remains that they will not accept my money or my contract. . . ." Father Coughlin announced that...
...Scranton last week met the biennial convention of District 1, United Mine Workers of America. It was more a dogfight than a convention. Shouts and fists broke up the first meeting. A gas bomb thrown by the police to restore order brought tears and temporary blindness to the chief speaker at the second meeting, U. S. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis. The issue between conservative and insurgent United Miners: whether to strike generally or just locally. The conservatives won. Victory was hollow, however, for 15,000 Pittston miners involved then decided not to strike...
...alarmed in Oslo was Norwegian Premier Ludvig Kolstad by this outrage that he despatched to Porsgrund two destroyers, two minelayers, a company of the Royal Guard, a machine gun battery and police bomb squads. Not content with even these precautions, Premier Kolstad called conscripts in and around Porsgrund, thereby compelling a majority of the 1,000 strikers into the Norwegian Army. Should they resist further, they could be shot as deserters...