Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bootleg arms to a belligerent is to ship them through a partisan or unscrupulous middleman nation. Last week President Cardenas of Mexico proudly announced that, so far, from Mexico to Spain's Reds had gone $1,465,658 worth of war material...
Most envied airman fighting with the Reds in Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
LICKS CHAMP," a shot of a husky dancer clamping a leg lock on a wrestler's neck; "SHIP WRECKED!" with a preview of drowned bodies cast...
Rare is the ship captain, locomotive engineer or plane pilot who can or will articulate, with skill at words commensurate with his skill at the controls, his, sensations while in action. More articulate than many a fulltime writer, however, is Major Alford Joseph ("Al") Williams of the Marine Corps Reserve who, besides flying planes at top speeds, writes about aeronautics for magazines, is currently doing a series for Scripps-Howard...
...come on deck to take the towing hawser. Finally coaxed out the next morning they bungle the job and the hawser, worth 50,000 francs, breaks within an hour. When a second hawser breaks, the Greek crew beg frantically to be taken off. Captain Renaud refuses, and the Greek ship sends out wild messages that the Cyclone has sunk. The Cyclone's, smashed radio transmitter prevents cursing Captain Renaud denying the charge, and while the furious crew of the Cyclone risk their lives to rescue its occupants, including the beautiful French wife of the Greek captain, the towing hawser...