Word: macon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take one or all of these strategic points: Ponce, San Juan, Culebra, St. Thomas. To an extent never before attempted, the fog of war enveloped the Caribbean. All communications were restricted, running lights extinguished. With Very rockets, destroyers torpedoed battleships. Battleships fired back with searchlights. Overhead the dirigible Macon droned along at 80 m.p.h. On the fifth and last day of the exercise, Admiral Reeves managed to land a strong detachment of marines at Culebra. The sea-soldiers went shouting up the bluffs, brandishing their bayonets, occupied the island and, temporarily at least, Admiral Reeves appeared to be in command...
Last month on her way across the U. S. from California to Florida the U. S. S. Macon got into rough air over Texas, broke two small girders, proceeded to Miami for repairs. Last week she set out to join the U. S. fleet in the Caribbean for maneuvers. Through a fog of military secrecy leaked news that not only had the Macon been "destroyed" by "enemy" aircraft, but also she had again suffered actual damage...
...Navy explained with considerable embarrassment that the damage consisted solely of a burned-out engine bearing, that the Macon could navigate if necessary on only two of her eight engines. More significant was the Navy's explanation of the Maeon's "destruction." Given a scouting mission to locate an "enemy" aircraft-carrier, she had died a heroine while spotting the Grey Fleet for the Blue Fleet's gunmen. After her "destruction" she became "a new ship" ("ZRS-6"), spotted everything in sight on another scouting mission...
...them the Holy Communion."-Rev. John Munday, Temple City, Calif. "Every priest knows that many people, particularly the elderly, have very active salivary glands and that they always drool into the cup; furthermore some men have long moustaches which dip into the wine- truly disgusting facts."-Rev. Dr. Clifton Macon, New Rochelle, N. Y. This week The Churchman quoted a layman who was shocked to find the common cup in use at a church school during a diphtheria epidemic. In the same publication a "distinguished physician" declared: "Suppose a person kneeling at the communion rail has syphilis. Suppose four other...
While the recent announcement of the theoretical destruction of the Macon in the Navy's war games was almost immediately followed up by the statement that "further tests have been scheduled," it is apparent that one more chapter must be added to the United States' amazing story of aeronautical inefficiency. The successive disasters of the ZR2, the Shenandoah, and the Akron, the latter due to the highest inefficiency, have rendered the question of appropriation for lighter than air ships a sore one with the American public...