Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's Gibraltar. When Labor M.P.s got to pressing His Majesty's Government uncomfortably, one of the most remarkable diversions in Parliamentary history was created by new First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper who drawled: "It may interest the House to know that a British ship was captured [by the Rightists] while attempting to enter Santander this morning." At this the Conservative M.P.s who formed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's majority raised shouts of laughter, and only the impotent Laborites of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition cried: "Shame! Shame...
...position in Red aviation. He was the regular pilot of the U. S. S. R.'s giant Maxim Gorky, probably owes his life to the fact that he was ill and another pilot was at the controls on the May day in 1935 when a stunting pursuit ship crashed into the Maxim Gorky, sent it down to destruction with a loss of 49 lives. Month ago when three of Gromov's countrymen made a spectacular flight from Moscow over the top of the world to Vancouver (TIME, June 28), he wanted to do better. He and two other...
...point where the International Date Line crosses the Equator. Later the searching force was cut to 42 planes. One day the Lexingtons 1,500 sailors roasted under a fierce sun and the aviators smeared their faces with protective grease; another day, tropical squalls sent planes scurrying back to the ship. At week's end, having swept an area roughly the size of Texas, the Lexington pointed home for San Diego...
George Palmer Putnam clung to his belief that his wife had come down not in the sea but on land, because the radio batteries, located under the ship's wings, would have been put out of commission in the water. Dozens of amateurs continued to report messages from the lost plane's radio, but Navy and Coast Guard radio experts doubted that any of these were genuine. One amateur who excitedly announced reception of a distress call was found to have been listening to the MARCH OF TIME'S dramatization of the tragedy from a commercial station...
...rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over Harris Hill, he guided his ship directly into a thunderhead, rode along inside it for an hour during which he was lost to view. Coming out several miles away, he turned back to the hill, entered another thunderhead, rode it for 21 mi., landed in Pennsylvania. Although a few daring pilots had tried it in previous...