Word: oversea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical of France's oversea air condition is the 40-ton French sesquiplane, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, built in 1934 and now an old-fashioned monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...
...Conant refrained from commenting yesterday on the latest bait handed out by Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, plenipotentiary of Hitler publicity, and the Atlantic waters are again calm after the oversea delivery of Tuesday's pungent missive...
...about 230,000 men, although in time of need 2,000,000 could be enrolled. The Japanese General Staff has spent many years studying the military situation in China and with the most deadly infantry in the world Japan can shatter any Chinese defense. The Japanese are skilled in oversea expeditions and their facility in handling all the automatic machinery of war employed in the West gives her a great advantage over China whose only strong point is great passive resistance. The forces of Japan are directed and coordinated from the War Office in Tokyo while China's troops have...
...West was a bustling harbor, a busy naval station, a bristling fort (Ft. Taylor). Key West had been fortified since 1846, had remained Federal during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served as a Naval flyers' training station, since has been a repair port and operating base for submarines...
Last November the fur ship Nanuk, icebound off Cape North, Siberia, radioed for an Alaskan plane to portage about a million dollars worth of furs to Fairbanks for train shipment, and some people aboard to mainland comforts. With winter on the region, oversea flying was unusually risky. Eielson decided to pilot the plane himself rather than foist the job on a subordinate...