Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defend North Carolina or any other spot in the U.S. from enemy bombs is an Army problem. That the Army does not expect North Carolina or any other State to be presently bombed is beside the Army's point. For when & if it goes to "defensive war"-whether at home or on foreign soil-it still must protect itself, its occupied areas and the civilian lives and properties thereon...
...soundly organized. Bomber speeds of 250 m.p.h. so nearly equal (and in some types exceed) pursuit speeds that defending planes can no longer count on overtaking offensive squadrons. Hence, to be of use, pursuit must be in the air and ready to fight when bombers arrive at a given point. To be there, pursuit must have warning of the approach and course of enemy bombers. How to provide that warning was the object of last week's game...
...highway leads into Canton, and by week's end its artillery and bombers had the city in flames. The other struck westward to cut the rail line between Canton and Hong Kong. Beating off scattered Chinese resistance, it reached the line, blew up the tracks at a point only 15 miles north of Hong Kong...
Significantly, the Associated Press reported that France was on the point of withdrawing its Ambassador from Leftist Spain. The United Press reported that Dr. Negrin was on the point of resigning as Premier, perhaps to be replaced by one of the available politicians who served as Premier of all Spain before the outbreak...
From the naval reserve base at Floyd Bennett Field on Long Island one morning last week, a small motor truck containing a radio transmitter set off for an unannounced point an hour's drive away. Hour or so later an American Airlines transport ship took off from the same field. Mounted horizontally just behind the throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer...