Word: seaplanesful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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All in all, it was a mass flight of first historic importance. Not because of its distance (over 1,000 miles). Not because it brought invaluable and much needed help to the Finns and lots of trouble to the Russians, who are short on seaplanes. But because it cast the...
The Finns used some of their limited supply of planes to bomb the Russian base at Baltiski, Estonia. This was not pure cockiness, as it seemed, because the Russians are short on seaplanes and need land bases from which to operate. If these bases could be destroyed, Helsinki and other...
As her position necessitated, Germany continued the more aggressive. Last fortnight one of her reconnaissance planes appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week...
But Britain's eyes are everywhere. The Foreign Office protested. Hurriedly France sent seaplanes which dropped orders to desist. Painter Marin-Marie and 40 Breton fishermen took their defeat in good part, drank a glass of champagne, sang the Marseillaise, desisted.
Opposition to authorizing improvement of Guam's facilities for seaplanes and small naval craft was hung on two main pegs by Congressmen who, whether or not they had thought it all the way through, were eloquent on their favorite objections: