Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry an nounced a program to reassure her uneasy citizens. The French air force will stage a mass flight of its own. Twenty-two bombers will set out in October from Istres Airdrome in southern France. They will cross the Mediterranean to the west coast of Morocco, fly down the coast to the shoulder of Senegal, thence inland across the French Sudan, nearly to the Congo. Finally, north over the Sahara to the Mediterranean again, and home - 15,600 mi. in all. Volunteer officers & crew were called to begin training...
...proper young hypocrite whom he kissed in the woods beyond St. Cloud. His mother's sudden death in a carriage accident put an end to that affair for a while. Then he went to Italy, where his tourist impressions were noted with great care, and finally to the Mediterranean island of Aeaea, "twelve hours from Naples," which is mythical. Mythical or not, there he met Katharina, "Katha" for short, and not much later they were swimming naked in the blue Mediterranean. They planned to live together in London. She was to come to him there August...
...times past the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Moors and Spaniards have overrun the Island of Mallorca, "Pearl of the Mediterranean" off the coast of Spain. Their admixed descendants, the Mallorcans, have very black, sunken eyes, a strangely dissipated look. They lazily raise silk worms, goats, oranges, olives, almonds...
Italo Balbo expresses his theory of military aviation thus: "Aircraft must be used in masses like infantry in the next war, and solo flying will get us nowhere." Hence he concentrates his efforts on mass maneuvres with himself in the lead. The first, in 1928, was a western Mediterranean cruise of 61 scout seaplanes. Next year 36 bombers roared across the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea to Odessa. Two years later the South Atlantic was hummed over according to plan...
...Zuyder Zee, the Baltic and numerous friendly canals and English estuaries. During the War Bennett lent the Velsa to the Admiralty, and it was afterwards sold, but he rarely turned down an invitation to go cruising. In 1927 he shipped as a guest of Otto Kahn on a Mediterranean yachting trip. Though he dressed the part of yachtsman, he never forgot his main business: in spite of bridge and cocktail-parties and sightseeing, he continued to log; his 1,000 words...