Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the Navy has 829 planes, including those for training purposes. Mr. In galls is sure that, in battle efficiency, bombing and scouting, these compare favorably with any other foreign airfleet. Aboard the giant carriers Lexington and Saratoga are carried 80 planes apiece, with a secret higher battle capacity. War plans call for the assignment of three planes to each battleship and large cruiser. In peace practice each such ship carries only...
...combat was last month clearly emphasized in the fleet's maneuvers off Haiti (TIME, March 24). Umpire of that theoretical conflict was Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, whose criticisms of the Navy put him on the "waiting orders" list for months (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927). Scouting planes from the Lexington located the Saratoga and Langley just after daybreak while their flight decks were filled with aircraft. Admiral Magruder ruled that the Lexington planes damaged the Saratoga's flight deck which was later destroyed by bombers from the Lexington. Likewise the Langley was put out of commission before her planes could...
...South, but the Vagabond's real thoughts are on the morrow. For tomorrow Massachusetts celebrates Patriot's Day, and the Vagabond, not to be outdone in the last refuge of a scoundrel, intends to lead his followers to water and to worship at the historic shrines of Lexington and Concord...
...leisurely fashion will he journey on his donkey over the path once hoofed by the famous metal-worker, Paul Revere, pointing out on the way the common of Lexington and the minute man (not a railroad train) there standing guard. Wandering on to Concord--what an appropriate name that is for the home of our big shindig--he will elucidate to the assembled Vagabonds the story of the shot heard round the world. For he feels that only a wanderer can show a good Bostonian the beauties of the local scene. The Vagabond has no birthplace and no local pride...
...Blandly he asked if he was "wanted" Chief Stege told him emphatically he was NOT wanted in Chicago, ordered him to get out, threatened him with arrest on sight "like any common hoodlum.'' Capone, distressed, insisted he had legal rights "like any other citizen." At the Hotel Lexington he opened "business headquarters." At 3 a.m. a reporter for the London Daily Express called him on the transoceanic telephone for an interview but central could not supply Capone's private number. To newsmen Capone carefully explained that his name is pronounced in two syllables (Capone...