Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of aerial warfare photographs exhibited the past three years by a Mrs. Gladys Cockburn-Lange, reputedly the remarried widow of a British Royal Flying Corps officer shot down in France. The pictures, some 60 in all, are amazing views of British and German planes in close combat. A few show such spectacular views as two planes colliding in midair; a German pilot falling from his flaming plane; most extraordinary of all, a British plane losing its wings as its pilot looped in exuberance over a victory...
...shutter was said to be operated by the first pull of the gun trigger. In normal combat practice a pilot would fire a burst from his gun to make sure it was in working order long before approaching as close to an enemy plane as the pictures indicated...
...ship to the U. S., pay a stiff tariff and still undersell the products of U. S. industry. Czechoslovakia, he cited, can lay down rubber boots in the U. S. at $1.16 a pair. They cannot be duplicated by the U. S. for less than $1.48. Japan sells celluloid combat $11.06 a gross against the best U. S. price of $25.86. Certain grades of European steel are so cheap that even if all labor cost was eliminated, U. S. steel mills could not compete, etc., etc., etc. The results, said Mr. Blythe, are closed factories and unemployment. Furthermore, he insisted...
Avco hired Publicists Edward L. Bernays and Bruno & Blythe to combat the Cord propagandists, P. P. Willis & Co. of Chicago, Doremus & Co. of Manhattan. But their replies were less heated. President La Motte Turck Cohu repeated his familiar objections to Mr. Cord. Avco was cannily waiting, hoping that the Cord faction would talk itself into trouble...
Ever since the dawn of the family institution, the designation "perfect marriage" has constituted a challenge for cynics, and in these later years, for psychoanalysis to search out and expose to general derision some herrid flaw, some suppressed hate or combat concealed by any couple known to boast of "never having a quarrel." At the Plymouth Theatre, this week, Arthur Goodrich, in his latest play, "The Perfect Marriage" has presented a happy and, we believe, truthful interpretation of this phenomenon. The lesson being that while there are, of necessity sacrifices by both the man and woman, the balance of satisfaction...