Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enemy planes it may bring down but by its effect upon the morale of the enemy, forcing him to fly so high that he loses his effectiveness against his own target. Since the targets were only one-quarter the size of actual airplanes, it was felt that the land batteries did well to hit them...
Night gun tests, conducted with circling stabbing searchlights of 2,000,000 candle power, against targets lowered (by request of the land gunners) from 8000 to 5000 ft., resulted in the firing of 360 shells, in only two hits on one target...
...taken an option on 1,000 acres of land on Lake Leman about six miles from Geneva. There it had been hoped to build a palace worthy of the Leauge of Nations with a magnificent watergate in memory of all the soldiers who were killed in the war. When it became apparent that the U.S would not enter the Leauge, the option had been allowed to elapse and the project was forgotten...
...Navy Department, following experienced judgment forbids further flights out of Etah, Greenland, by the amphibian planes it had detailed to cooperate with Exporer MacMillan in his search for the Fabulous continent, "Crocker Land," which Admiral Peary thought he saw looming up west of craggy Cape Hubbard. (TIME, June...
...inclement weather. In July, ice-floes delayed the Bowdoin and Peary as far south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until it was impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land. During the past fortnight the planes scoured Ellesmere Land for a safe site and thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They...