Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked, but continued climbing till it was 2,000 ft. up. Suddenly it faltered, nosedived, crashed. Dead in the broken cabin was Pilot Van Damme. Only cause of the accident which occurred...
...called "the Douhet theory." In effect this teaches that the civilian population of an attacked country, their homes, shops and municipal services, have become main military objectives of today-since aviation now permits an invading army to wage much of the war behind the enemy's lines, crack morale, force surrender. In Spain, Douhet disciples point out, the use by aircraft of poison sprays and bombs (which was decisive in Ethiopia) has virtually not been tried, and this was still true last week as modified Douhet methods suddenly subjected Barcelona, the largest and wealthiest Spanish city and the country...
Although the swordsmen finished a wretched fifth at the Pentagonal, the added experience in competing with these veteran fencers enabled them to hold the crack Columbia team to a 14-13 verdict...
...gallery consists always of some 200 Russians who appear to be workmen let out for a boisterous holiday, crack jokes and jubilate among themselves during the trials of bigwigs, invariably cheer the death sentences. †To whom Krestinsky like the others had made his signed confession...
...largest U. S. plaster maker and one of the largest concerns in the building industry is U. S. Gypsum Co. and last week in the annual meeting of Gypsum stockholders, Chairman Sewell L. Avery took occasion to crack back at Franklin Roosevelt. Reading TIME'S account of the President's lecture aloud to some 50 Gypsum stockholders assembled in Chicago, Chairman Avery declared that Franklin Roosevelt had been misleading in his comparison of 1938 with 1929. In 1929, said Mr. Avery, plaster prices were drastically low because of a savage price war. Today Gypsum's average prices...