Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banging Bombs, High over Chesapeake Bay one day last week, in an Army bomber from Langley Field, Va., Capt. Robert G. Breene and Major Charles A. French were dropping explosive "eggs" into the water. Once when Major French pulled the release lever, no bomb left the ship; he yanked again. Then the officers looked overside, were horrified to see the last two bombs swinging beneath the fuselage, caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still...
Precedent. On July 22, 1916, a bomb exploded during San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade. Ten people were killed, 40 wounded. Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, labor agitators who had been prominent in unionizing street railway employes, were convicted of the crime. For the past 15 years liberal and labor organizations have been trying to get them out of prison. Thousands of dollars have been spent in propagandizing their cause, a thorn in the side of every California governor. Precedent is the first play in their behalf...
Suspected and separated since the fire during which both did rescue work, Prisoners Grate and Gibbons incriminated themselves by a note intercepted between them. Their first attempt at incendiarism, they confessed, was made with a crude kerosene fire bomb in December 1929. It failed. Twice again the plotters tried unsuccessfully to burn the wooden forms surrounding the concrete beams of a cell-block under construction. Fourth and successful attempt was made by filling a gravy bowl with oil and shavings, using two candles for a fuse...
Give Japan Philippines? When Governor General Davis returns to his Philippines on April 15, he will find them still reverberating from a bomb of irony exploded in Manila last week...
...assassinate him. In neat glass cases are the poisoned feeding bottle which nearly did him in before he was a year old; a stone on which he nearly split his head as a boy; an assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet in 1905; bits of the other bomb that killed a dozen bystanders and soldiers on his wedding day, splattered himself and his bride with blood. There is also a revolver. That revolver was fired at him repeatedly by one Sanchez Alegre...