Word: refuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canton Island, where last month a party of scientists viewed the | solar eclipse (TIME, June 21). Meanwhile the aircraft carrier Lexington, with 62 planes aboard (instead of 72 as first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, coordinator of the search, planned to abandon it. Meanwhile the chance of finding the flyers alive, according to the consensus of searchers...
...darkness he ploughed ahead at 25 knots for three whole days during which the nearest newshawks were the three representatives of the press associations who followed with the Secret Service men half a mile behind on the cruiser Chester. On the fourth morning when the cruisers dropped anchor to refuel at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the newshawks had a peek at him. Only news they got was that he and his mother had been in Port of Spain on a cruise 32 years before...
...which the U. S. and Britain are amicably equal they are angrily desirous of building somewhat different kinds of ships. The U. S., poorly equipped with naval bases, needs war boats of comparatively large tonnage and consequent long cruising range. Britain, well equipped with bases from which to refuel her fleets, would like to build smaller war boats, thus enabling her to pack a greater number of fighting units inside her global tonnage. This the U. S. cannot permit, fearful of a British swarm of hornet ships. Britain in turn fears what the U. S. might achieve with a sudden...
...Mollisons had landed at Karachi to refuel, had taken off only to be forced back ten minutes later with landing-gear trouble. Seven hours behind the leader was Roscoe Turner. At Bagdad he became confused, made a down-wind landing, nearly cracked up. Stuck in Paris was Captain Stack with his complete newsreel of the flight's start...
Duration (without refuel): H. Kaulen; 87 hr. in free balloon (Germany...