Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slender, handsome, rather English in manner, he led down from a Rhode Island base two battleships, three cruisers, three destroyer divisions, aircraft equipment- theoretically a full-fledged battle fleet. His mission was to bottle up U. S. fighting ships in New York Harbor. At Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook was Major-General Andrew Hero Jr., Chief of Coast Artillery, defending New York, keeping the harbor open. For three days the battle between the Admiral and General veered back and forth. Claims on each side were large. Admiral Cole issued this war-time communique: "Our Grand Fleet today engaged the enemy...
...once a prime factor in Manhattan's defense. Iron cannon balls fired from it could repulse enemy ships riding up the harbor under full sail. Time brought changes in defense methods, supplied mines, air corps, long-range coast artillery out at Sandy Hook, left Fort Jay a quaint military relic with restful officers' homes, trim lawns, untrafficked roads, under the towered shadow of lower Manhattan...
Dirigibles for Offense. Up under the belly of the dirigible Los Angeles last week rose a Navy service plane. Both craft were traveling 60 m. p. h. On the top wing of the plane was a big hook. Down from the dirigible extended a rigid trapeze. The plane's pilot successfully maneuvered to engage hook with trapeze so that the plane hung there, was carried along. Three times the plane thus made successful contact. The experiment had been effected previously with smaller, semirigid Navy dirigibles, never with the big Los Angeles. Experts viewed the work as changing big dirigibles...
...mentioned, and then the list grew and grew until it seemed to include most of the famed producers of the whole U. S. But no mention was made of two of the oldest, most experienced groups of players in the game-the cinema industry and the hook publishers...
...training in Lakewood, N. J., on what is normally a stud farm. The finishing touches were being applied to his style ? a short left hook which many called vicious; the dempseyesque "weaving" which looks so well in the ring and keeps the other man guessing. Chiefly it is in the Schmeling right that the Schmeling might resides. It is swift, potent, and from it came all the early German knock outs which gave Schmeling fame and ideas. Black, red and yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German...