Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of mine!" Der Führer continued, "I should like to express to the great Italian statesman in the name of the German people, and my own name, our warmest thanks. We know what Mussolini's attitude has meant to Germany in these days. . . . Indissoluble friendship! The land and frontiers of this friend are to us inviolable. The Italian people know that the German nation supports my word...
...Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until some 30,000 were reported killed on both sides. By week's end Japanese planes had bombed Suchow in preparation for a land assault and the Japanese forces pressed down toward the city's outskirts...
Twelve years ago air force chiefs throughout the world were gripped, fascinated by Mastery of the Air, a book by Italian General of Aviation Giulio Douhet. He has since died, but Mastery of the Air has become the standard text of thousands of young air officers in every land who hold with what is called "the Douhet theory." In effect this teaches that the civilian population of an attacked country, their homes, shops and municipal services, have become main military objectives of today-since aviation now permits an invading army to wage much of the war behind the enemy...
...famed builder of army planes. A Russian naval flyer who lost a leg in his first World War engagement but recovered later to down 13 German planes, he went to the U. S. on a mission of the Tsar's Government in 1917, never returned to his sovietized land. Long a U. S. citizen, married to a U. S. girl, Alexander de Seversky joined the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, rose to the rank of major. In 1931 he organized his own company at Farmingdale, L. I., of which he is president, chief designer and test pilot. Many...
...Harvard classmate (1912) of Humorist Robert Benchley, Steelman Hugh Gaddis, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt. He is undoubtedly the only man who was ever, at the same time, a Harvard undergraduate, an able shotputter, an Orthodox bishop aged 19; for Fan Noli, on leaving his Turkish-ruled native land, took pains to organize the church in the U. S., getting himself named its bishop before matriculating at Harvard...