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Word: pn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patrol vessels were stationed every 200 miles, a distance entirely too far apart for an experimental flight of this kind with such primitive flying machines as the PN-9s are. Double or triple this number of vessels should have been there. In fact, the whole Pacific fleet should have been placed there, instead joy riding around the Antipodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Harsh Words | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...golden afternoon last week, two large seaplanes rose from Pablo Bay, Calif., and lifted their droning snouts over the Pacific. They?the "giant" seaplanes PN-9 No. 1 and PN-9 No. 3?had received orders from the Navy Department to fly to Hawai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shenandoah | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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