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Although many Navy men still doubt its value, the airship can do some things an airplane can't. It can run at low speed, or stop dead, hover over a suspected subsea object, take dead aim with bomb or depth charge from a stationary platform. From its car, in clear weather, the eight-man crew of a modern blimp once spotted a submarine 90 feet below the surface. Crews from Lakehurst daily practice following sharks and whales, occasionally give them a practice bomb. Other blimp virtues: they can stay in the air about 50 hours, can follow...
...Fight, Fight." In public the boys stood by each other. Bellamy's older brother, Herb, was a great scrapper. But whenever Herb was in a fight, it was understood that Bellamy would "hover near by waiting for the battle cry." If Herb needed reinforcements, he would shout: "Jump in, Bill...
Last week three U.S. correspondents boarded a train in London, prepared to take off for Iceland. Halfway to Scotland, the British Military Intelligence hauled them off. Washington, it turned out, had no desire to let newshawks hover over Reykjavik...
Probably the closest race of the evening will be the fifty-yard free style in which the fastest Tech man should easily do 25 seconds flat. Ulen has five sprinters who hover around this mark, anyone of whom might be used tonight. They include Stowell, Ted McNitt, Tom Godfrey, Tom Shrewsbury and Dave Stearns...
...Over the top window of Manhattan's tallest building hover perpetually two genuine angels, standing guard over a soul imprisoned in a steel girder...