Word: feint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died this spring hunting to rescue Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm and their crew of the Southern Cross "lost" in wild Australia. The flyers, who guided the Southern Cross across the Pacific from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia last summer (TIME, June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were aboard, did not consult...
Round Twelve. Rockefeller Jr. resumed his tactics of the tenth round. This time his feint was an observance of the amenities: He paid his respects in Cairo to King Fuad. At the same time his Manhattan office through Thomas M. Debe voise, collector of pro-Rockefeller proxies, announced,. "We now feel confident of having enough proxies. We shall continue bending our energies to obtain many more stockholders for our side, for we are anxious to lead in the number of voters as well as in the volume of share-holders...
Daniel Willard for the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringens for the Chesapeake & Ohio last week made another feint towards accomplishing consolidations of eastern railroads. In 1920 Congress authorized the railroads to consolidate into trunk systems. But there was no acceptable plan. So the railroads have bought to form system themselves. Between the Mississippi, Great Lakes and Atlantic Seaboard, the Pennsylvania, New York Central and B. & O. were solidly braced to take on smaller lines. The Van Sweringens entered the situation by buying control of the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan...
...Blues planned to seize not Lanai, but Molokai for an air base; then to make a feint with the fleet at the south coast of Oahu, making its main landing attack on the north coast, with a secondary landing on the west coast. As a matter of fact, both Molokai and Lanai were seized. The airplane carrier Langley was kept well at sea to avoid the Black submarines and the Blue airplanes flew to land as soon as the Islands were taken. Before this, the Black airplanes inflicted losses on the landing parties, sinking a tender, but of course could...
...Blue feint at the south shore of Oahu was a failure. The Blacks were not deceived and the attack brought the Blue fleet under the fire of strong land batteries. This was the second day of the attack. Early the following morning the Blues made their landing attack. On the west coast, the umpires decided that they were repulsed. On the north coast, the umpires held that they suffered severe losses, but were successful. The reserves were too far away...