Word: craft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most spectacular of the air maneuvers was the Blue raid on the Red army supply base at Columbus. Fifteen giant bombing planes screened by 15 pursuit craft and preceded by 18 attack planes executed this theoretical destruction. In a 100-second diving assault the attack planes delivered an effective fire equal to an infantry division of 30,000 men supported by divisional artillery. The Red defense, surprised, was unable to down a single bomber. Later in the day, a combined Blue and Red air force thrice circled Cincinnati, theoretically dropped hundreds of bombs, wiped...
...Jerusalem (TIME, April 8), the Graf Zeppelin took its second, last week, to the Madeira Islands. Rising from Friedrichshafen one afternoon with 20 paying passengers, Premier Otto Braun of Prussia, and 1,200 Ibs. of mail to be dropped on cities in passing, Dr. Hugo Eckener piloted his craft across France to Bordeaux, across Spain, Portugal and Tangier, out over the Atlantic to Madeira. He returned by the Mediterranean shore of Spain and the Rhone valley. The ship made its first night landing on the small Friedrichshafen field with perfect ease. Coverage: 3,400 mi. in 57 hours continuous flight...
Peter Modrak will speak at a Radio Colloquium at Craft Laboratory on "Short Wave Transmitters" at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Tea will be served in the lecture hall before the lecture at 4.15 o'clock...
...Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired twice on the Fish boat. Capt. Larsen hove to. From the patrol boat to the Restless stepped a U. S. agent (No. 979). He had a gun. Others on the U. S. boat exhibited firearms. "Why the hell didn't you stop when we fired?" asked the agent...
...occasionally take a glance around the horizon. Such a proper lookout will disclose . . . any Coast Guard boat . . . signaling you to stop. The Coast Guard boat will use her whistle or horn or a megaphone or visual signals ... to attract your attention. ... It may be necessary for the Coast Guard craft to fire a blank warning shot. If these fail to produce any result, the Coast Guard vessel is then justified in firing warning shots well clear of the fleeing craft and in assuming that she is endeavoring to escape...