Word: hit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor, under a broken window. Something was dreadfully wrong. She ran to the rear bedroom to wake her brother. Just as he stepped out of bed, the whole house came apart in a blasting crash. Mary Jo and Mrs. Miller were only slightly bruised; Brother J. H. was hit on the head by a falling timber. Outside, in the Texas summer night, a car drove away...
...Spee had two turrets of n-inchers. That is power. A direct hit with 670 pounds of explosive-packed armor-piercer could blow a hole big as a suite at the Hotel Adlon in any of these ships. Then she had the eight 5-9-inchers as well. Roughly, the Spee had a 3-to-1 advantage in armament and fire-power over all three cruisers put together...
Only way that the Spee could have overcome the British tactic was to get her two planes in the air for reconnoitering. It must have been early in the battle that a lucky British hit stripped to her fuselage the plane perched on the catapult-blocking the catapult so the other plane was also useless, and thus virtually blinding Spee. Despatches by week's end had not made it clear whether the British used their five available planes...
...about 400* Cyclones a month. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, General Motors' new Allison plant is getting into production on its high-powered, liquid-cooled engines to go into new Army pursuit ships. By the middle of the summer the production of the three plants in military engines may well hit a total of close to 2,000 a month, end fears which Army and Navy men entertained that engine production might become a bottleneck in U. S. armament...
...Great Victor Herbert is distinguished for providing Allan Jones the first film part worthy of his silken tenor. It also brings to the screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical season. A little skinny on the stage, Miss Martin's figure is enhanced by the tendency of the camera to fill out curves...