Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week, the French driver was killed, four large cases of "foodstuffs" broke open, and out rolled war plane motors. At Honfleur, France, an overloaded winch, lifting huge cases out of a steamer flying the flag of Panama which had arrived with "agricultural machinery" for Leftist Spain, broke down. This accident smashed against the side of the dock cases which broke open, spilled out six-inch gun carriages...
...been visited by any member of a British Cabinet since June 2 5, 1935-the fateful summer day on which Mr. Anthony Eden had a personal quarrel in Rome with the Dictator which affected the whole history of contemporary Europe. Just before the War Secretary left England by plane for Malta, where he will inspect naval defenses before going to Rome this week, Leslie Hore-Belisha predicted...
...handed out at the start which gives a clue to the first destination. The flyers will not have to land on any field not an airport. Sometimes directions will be laid so that actual landing will not be necessary. After the order of ordinary treasure hunts, the first plane returning to the starting point having fulfilled the requirements is the winner...
...eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft. It shot down one of the pursuing planes on the Manchukuo-Soviet border, was itself shot down by other Ogpu planes. The eight Soviet officers were killed in the crash. Yominri, the third largest Tokyo paper, spends much...
...covering his travels over 20 years. It is spattered with characteristic Dos Passos splashes of color, like his description of his first glimpse of Toledo: "Against the grey and ochrestreaked theatre of the Cigarrales were piled masses of buttressed wall that caught the orange sunset light on many tall plane surfaces rising into crenellations and square towers and domes and slatecapped spires. . . ." But in general it is laconic: "Here we are sitting on our tails again," he wrote, when the caravan was delayed by bandits. "This ibn Haremis gang is a rare one. . . . Such a set of walleyed, crooknosed, squinting...