Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounds that both repeal or retention of the Neutrality Act's arms embargo might lead the U. S. into World War II, Herbert Hoover now proposed that the U. S. sell freely "defensive" weapons (pursuit & light observation planes, anti-aircraft guns), prohibit forever the sale of "offensive" weapons (bombing planes, bombs, poison gas, submarines...
...Biggest air attack so far came last week. Late one rainy afternoon, a British naval squadron ran across two or three German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast...
...beginning of this year Britain had about seven bombers for every three pursuit ships; and they are good bombers. The Vickers Wellington can go almost 300 m.p.h., and has ample range to strike at Berlin-3,240 miles. Smaller, just as fast, the Bristol Blenheim (range: 1,125 miles) is one of Great Britain's main standbys. And the mysterious Bristol Beaufort is too fast and too good to be described to the public...
...grand old man of U. S. higher education and its severest critic, nine years ago founded the Institute for Advanced Study, where topflight scholars (well subsidized by a $5,000,000 endowment provided by Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) might devote themselves to the pursuit of pure learning. He brought to his Institute, housed in Princeton, N. J., Albert Einstein, a group of promising Ph.D.s. This month Dr. Flexner saw his Institute (now richer by $3,000,000) move into its own building, Fuld Hall, on Princeton's outskirts. This week, 72 and ailing...
...German planes which escaped field out across the North Sea toward their German bases with British planes in machine-gunning pursuit...