Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of Cuba, General Gerardo Machado. After him spoke the President of the United States, who made the very best of a difficult situation by championing Fraternity and omitting specific reference to Intervention. Therefore, some regretted that the U. S. Navy Department found it necessary to send a huge bombing plane soaring in non-stop flight from Miami, Florida, directly over La Habana and on to assist U. S. Marines in Nicaragua...
Yachting, swimming, golf, tennis, dancing, horse-racing, roulette are sports familiar to the U. S. Unfamiliar is Havana's jai-alai (pronounced "high-a-ligh"), or Spanish handball, played in huge public frontones (courts) by native and imported professionals...
...been somewhat marred in the world's eyes by the death of certain U. S. Marines who were bent on armed enforcement of U. S. decrees in Nicaragua. Col. Lindbergh detoured 30 miles to avoid the battleground. He dropped from the sky into a thunderstorm of welcome. A huge banner billowed out the words "Envoy of Peace and Good Will from Coolidge." An excited restauranteur sprinkled champagne in the street over which he was to pass. National Holiday was declared. Speeches. Eight hundred native school children held a "sing song" for him in front of the U. S. Legation...
Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, lord of the Los Angeles, answered: "Auxiliaries." He pointed out that huge hangars; great ground crews; and extraordinarily expensive terminal equipment are requisite for dirigibles. In the U. S. there are only two hangars; Lakehurst and Scott Field, Belleville, Ill. Dirigibles cannot, like ariplanes, be landed on any flat run of ground and wheeled into a convenient shed. They must have home life...
...night. But should a high wind rise she must let go, or tear her nose off. She can, in emergencies, be brought down on large flat stretches. There must be crowds on hand to hold her. She can be temporarily "anchored" at sea by means of a huge canvas bucket dragged in the water on a 200 foot cable. On absolutely still lakes she can be angled down, to rest with her nose in the water. These are all temporary measures. Dirigibles are too expensive to be left lying around...