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...white obscurity behind which, from nowhere on the battle line's port quarter, torpedo planes approached wing-to-water, theoretically launching torpedoes at the dreadnaughts from close astern, wheeling back through the smoke to safety when their work was done. Planes catapulted from the battleships sought to repel these two types of attack but were greatly outnumbered. Though obviously favored by perfect weather and the arbitrary plan of the "battle," the Navy's overhead forces had easily "stolen the show." As a final touch, a plane from the Saratoga equipped with a special hook flew...
With prodigious swoops and rushes, great flocks of Army airplanes sped westward across the land last week. A hostile army had seized San Francisco, was rapidly invading northern California, repel them, huge bombers roared cross-country from Langley Field, Va. Tiny pursuit planes streaked away from Selfridge Field Mich. Attack planes skimmed off from Fort Crockett, Tex. At Mather Field, Sacramento, these squadrons converged with others from Seattle and San Diego to form an air force of nearly 200 battle planes, the largest gathered together in the U. S. since...
...this lies not in the radio, and certainly not in the "talkie". It may be fund in the amazing excess poundage of the operators themselves. With a Bayreuth baritone dangerously near the three hundred pound mark in possession of the lead role and with an unlimited heavyweight diva to repel his amorous dalliance, the best Wagnerian opera must appear either pompous and slow or considerably absurd. At present, the majority of opera singers take it for granted that their art places no restriction on their appetites. Eighteen Day Diets are to them a vague rite connected with the folk lore...
Pleased was Dr. Moton to state: "There were 27 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings ... 24 of them in Southern States. . . In three instances armed force was used to repel would-be lynchers. . . . Twenty Negro men and two Negro women were thus saved from death at the hands of mobs...
Disquieting to all Europeans was Dagblad's assertion that Belgium stands committed to mobilize a minimum of 600,000 men, and France a minimum of 1,200,000 for immediate joint action to repel aggression against either state by Germany, Italy or Spain. Such an agreement-declared by Dagblad to run for 25 years-might indeed stir profound uneasiness. But worse still, according to Dagblad, the General Staffs of France and Belgium plan to seize the offensive, in any future war with Germany, by advancing their troops across the Dutch province of Limburg. Thus Limburg would be "violated...