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Frenchmen are still submitting to the "peeping" of German planes coasting along their secretly built frontier defenses (TIME, May 6), but six Italian pursuit planes rocketed up last week when a German ship tried to peep at Benito Mussolini's so-called "Air Gibraltar," the great military airport on Italy's northern frontier near Sesto Calende...
...Hood, appeared a flag signal for the squadron to form single line of battle. H. M. S. Renown, leading the second column, swung sharply inward. The Hood continued stubbornly on her course. Amid warning siren hoots, the two ships crashed together. No one was injured but Renown limped to Gibraltar for temporary repairs. The heavier Hood suffered $40,000 damages. Who was to blame...
...Were shushed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister when Laborite M. P.'s demanded to know whether Britain's Gibraltar-like "Big Five" banks were burned in the peanut oil, pepper and shellac crashes (TIME, Feb. 18, 25) and whether a crash in London's tin market may not be imminent...
...launched its victorious, land-grabbing war with Mexico. Feeling its imperial oats, the young nation decided to build a magnificent fortress, a Gibraltar of America. Chosen as a good site was a desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies...
...Would much appreciate your exhibiting March of Time in Lensie Theatre (Gibraltar chain) in Santa...