Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also published last week was the news that France has just doubled an order made last year for 100 Curtiss-Wright Pursuit ships of a type already in U. S. Army use, and plans to buy perhaps 400 more planes (reportedly through financing arranged with Franklin Roosevelt's assistance...
More startling was a recent radio capture. Four desperadoes in jail in Omaha slugged their guards and got away. Soon law & order and law's new kibitzer, radio, were hot in pursuit. First word of the escaped convicts came by telephone to radio station WOW, reporting them heading toward Gretna, 23 miles southwest of Omaha. Soon police, newsmen and radio newscasters with mobile transmitters were on the trail, among them WOW's dapper News Editor Foster...
...Century does war overshadow Sassoon's mellow recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly old [Sir Edmund] Gosses and [Lytton...
...lives in a gamekeeper's cottage near Stowe, where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...
Cinemactor Reginald Denny last week sold to the U. S. War Department six radio-controlled airplanes, to be used as targets for anti-aircraft gunners and pursuit pilots. First developed in California as a Denny hobby, the miniature (8 ft. by 12 ft.), gasoline-driven robots need no pilots, can fly at 7,000 to 8,000 feet for 30 minutes. Until the planes are delivered next summer, practicing gunners must continue to get along with colored streamers towed behind full-sized craft...