Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills of Bordeaux, toward which other squadrons were speeding; medium bombers had circled Orleans, passed Le Mans on their way back to Cherbourg and home. At 2 p. m. the first squadrons of Blenheims and Wellingtons were at their airports; five minutes later the lighter bombers landed...
...built a stone shelter on one of the Minquiers, while law-abiding Frenchmen had none, raised 20,000 francs by public subscription to build one. Led by Yachtsman-Painter "Marin-Marie" (Durand le Couppel de Saint-Front, who in 1936 took a 40-foot motorboat from Manhattan to Cherbourg), 40 Breton fishermen landed on Maitresse, began building...
...Cherbourg surrounded by French detectives, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh boarded the Aquitania, bound for the U. S. "on business" - his first return since he and Mrs. Lindbergh came for two months in 1937. Said Chairman Morris Sheppard of the U. S. Senate Military Affairs Committee : "I think he could give us some valuable information...
...high seas, bound for Germany. At first glance, it appeared that this escape of Ignatz from a hair net was a brilliant piece of work. The assumption proved unwarranted. In his haste to leave, Dr. Griebl, naturalized in 1926, had forgotten to take along his U. S. passport. At Cherbourg French authorities were denied permission to search the ship for him. When the Bremen docked in Germany, he was promptly arrested, fined 60 marks ($25) permitted to remain. Reporters jumped to the conclusion that Griebl, ready to turn state's evidence, had been kidnapped by loyal spies...
...people to lunch, sail for Europe, remember on the boat, cable his guests to charge the lunch to him. He will cross the Atlantic to at tend rehearsals in Manhattan, suddenly take the first boat back. Once he embarked for the U. S. at Southampton, got off again at Cherbourg...