Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British near Dunkerque on the Channel, he downed six German planes, won three prized medals for bravery. He came home a boy of 19 and the U. S. Navy's one and only ace. The "war" to which he flew this year was the Navy's annual game off Panama in the Pacific...
...nine battleships, an aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Langley) with 40 planes, three "treaty" cruisers, swarms of miscellaneous craft. With them were coming transports bearing 50,000 soldiers, hundreds of crated airplanes. Their aim? was to effect a landing on the Central American coast, set up their planes, smash the Panama Canal. Sharp eyes could easily have identified Rear-Admiral Frank Herman Schofield aboard the battleship California as the commander of this Black enemy fleet...
According to announcements a "formal dance" in honor of Their Royal Highnesses had been cancelled because the British Court is in mourning for the King's sister (TIME, Jan. 12). After attending an "informal dance" until 3 a. m. the Princes were up at noon. As at Panama (TIME, Feb. 16) they had preferred a brunette: Miss Virginia Harris of Columbia, Mo., private secretary to U. S. Ambassador Fred Morris Dearing...
...expressly for military use, the Navy wanted to have the Los Angeles scout experimentally with the fleet. For this, the express permission of Great Britain, France and Japan was necessary. Last week, permission granted, orders were posted for the Los Angeles to proceed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thence for Panama, to join the Navy's winter maneuvers...
Echo-Meter. From its great hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., where it had undergone winter overhaul, the Navy dirigible Los Angeles emerged last week, its new coat of silver paint gleaming in the sun, and cruised in preparation for its flight to Panama for the Navy war games. As new equipment the Los Angeles carried a radio-echo-log, a finely adjusted altimeter which indicates the height of the craft by the time required for a radio signal to reach the ground and rebound to a receiving device...