Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover whacked the Shipping Board down from seven to three members. Surviving this economy were Commissioners Thomas Ventry O'Connor, Samuel S. Sandberg and Rear Admiral Hutchinson Ingham Cone...
White-headed Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett spent a night last week aboard the U. S. S. Akron while she cruised over the sea. In the morning, off Barnegat, N. J. he decided it was time for him to start for his office in Washington. Up from the control car he climbed into the envelope, then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre...
Trapdoors in the floor of the airship were slid forward and athwartships, exposing grey space through a T-shaped aperture slightly larger than the dimensions of the plane. From the rear cockpit Lieut. Daniel Ward Harrigan signalled with his hand. An electric winch began turning. Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering the plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever...
...living has the qualifications for the task equal to the qualifications of President Hoover. . . . Say what you will about us, we're an experienced force. Is this the time to order veterans to the rear and put raw recruits in charge? I think...
...golf balls. Then they began throwing putters, irons, wooden clubs. The car's windshield was smashed. Its body clattered under the fire. Suddenly one of its occupants was pitched out and the automobile made back for the shrubbery, vanished up a lane while a desperate defender in the rear seat fired away with a revolver...