Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speculated on strength and strategy: how strong is France's Maginot Line, Germany's West Wall? How long can Poland hold out? How menacing to Britain are Germany's submarines? How strong are Britain's air defenses? Last week each move of each division, each flight of each bomber, the torpedoes that found their marks, the four-inch, six-inch, ten-inch, 14-inch, 16-inch shells that screamed overhead, added their small sums to the totals that would give the great answers...
Last year Pan American Airways' Samoan Clipper, out of Samoa for Auckland, N. Z. on the first commercial flight between the U. S. and the Antipodes, crashed, killing famed Pilot Edwin C. Musick and her six-man crew. Despite this shattering setback, Pan American stuck stoutly to its plan for a regular San Francisco-New Zealand passenger and airmail service. It ordered six Boeing 314s, biggest plane ever assembled in the U. S. (payload: 40 passengers, 5,000 Ibs. of cargo), earmarked three for its transatlantic service, the rest for its Pacific venture. Because Kingman Reef and Pago Pago...
...wondrous flight of Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow to sign a Pact had jogged the world (TIME, Aug. 28), the Pact's actual wording really shook it. Nub of the Pact was contained in Articles...
...Noble believes, depends on their forebrains. When the forebrains of ordinary, sociable minnows are removed, the fish leave school, become hermits. Strangely enough, "such fish may seem in other respects more effective organisms than fish with intact brains. [They] . . . respond to food more quickly ... exhibit much greater vigor in flight reactions, exhibit less caution. . . . The operation seems to improve their personalities, but their social relations are completely lost." Fishman Noble also noted that the sex glands of partially de-brained fish degenerate and they lose interest in breeding. When pituitary hormones are injected the fish swim out in search...
...rated in 1937 the fastest multi-engined commercial plane in the world. This year the Lockheed plant turned out the two-engined P-38, one of the world's fastest pursuit ships. Lockheed is now working on a new Electra and the four-engined Excalibur, scheduled for test flight-next summer...