Word: catapults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-&-blue bull's eye insignia of the British Royal Air Force-hence the excitement. The British Air Ministry had bought the ship, presumably to test it as a sample of U. S. fighting craft. One important function to which the Corsair is specially adapted is catapulting from battleships and light cruisers, a maneuver in which the U. S. Navy has always surpassed foreign forces. A reason for U. S. superiority is its development of the single-float type of seaplane gear, as in the Corsair. Foreign seaplanes are usually of the twin-float type which, if strong enough...
...famed as the stock pools which used to catapult Radio Corp. of America shares is the patent pool that RCA has had with General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. In the spring of 1930 the Department of Justice set forth to prove the patent pool was in restraint of trade. Last week rather than stand a long and costly trial with the risk of losing the case and being heavily fined, the defendants agreed to mend their set-up as the Government suggested, stoutly insisting nevertheless that they had violated no law. Their consent will be a boon...
...dispatches from Hawaii indicate that the account of the murder, coupled with the incidents of the foregoing three months, contains any number of those elements any one of which would catapult the story into the headlines. The details of murder and attack in connection with wealth and social prominence would be enough to keep the incident prominent for some time alone. But added to this are the aspects of race prejudice, naval interference, and congressional investigation and imperialism. The former will delight the mass mind; and because of the latter comment from the most intelligent is inevitable. All papers have...
...remembered through the winter. Their rival brothers, the plane crew of the Europa, had made a record last month by landing the mail in New York 28 hr. ahead of the steamer (TIME, Sept. 21). The Bremen's mail should be there 30 hr. ahead of time. The catapult on the Bremen's sundeck whirred; the plane shot into the sky 1,300 mi. northeast of Ambrose Lightship and flew on into rain, fog & headwind. At dark she alighted for a moment on Glace Bay Harbor to check position with a fishing boat...
...Catapult, with...