Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Station at Killingholme, England, a N.C. 2, two Liberty-motor flying boat, Curtiss type, built at Naval Aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Four men, oil, fuel, water, armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew continuously overhead eight hours-record at that time. This experiment was made, and successfully too, for the great effort to bomb Heligoland-Kiel Canal, never attempted due to British opposition. Forty sea planes, mates to above described, were to do the job. Eight hours to over...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
Going to pieces with damp rot in the Patuxent River off Chesapeake Bay are the once magnificent Kronprinzessin Cecilie (now the Shipping Board's Mt. Vernon) which at the outbreak of War made its famed dash into Bar Harbor, Me. with a load of German gold, and the Kaiser Wilhelm II (now the Agamemnon). For these N. G. L. will get $4,287,000 and $3,829,000 respectively...
Pratt Praised. A prime charge of anti-Treaty men has been that Britain dictated the kind and number of cruisers the U. S. might have. Provocative to anti's and disturbing to the Treaty's friends was a load of British praise which fell last week upon Admiral William Veazie Pratt, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, as one of the few U. S. Navy men to support the pact. In London the Naval & Military Record, semi-official organ of the British Admiralty, declared...
...television possibilities were publicized by General Electric in conjunction with its report of progress. Example: manless bombing planes equipped with television so that operators in a base camp can watch for an auspicious moment to discharge the plane's load of explosives. To lend substance, Dr. Alexanderson announced his departure for Panama "at the invitation of the Navy ... to study some of the practical conditions for the realization of such ideas...