Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attacks on British ships in the 23-month-old war were brought to 60 and the 78th British seaman was killed. The British-owned port at Gandia, with Union Jacks painted on the rooftops, was bombed and machine-gunned in what British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack on British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant at Burbank, Calif., will ship to England, possibly within a year, the first of 200 eleven-passenger airliners, valued at some $18,000,000, which will be converted into reconnaissance machines. Fitted with two 800-horsepower motors, capable of a top speed of 250 miles an hour, these Lockheeds will be far superior to the present Royal Air Force reconnaissance ships, the Avro Anson, with a maximum speed of 188, and the Blackburn Shark, with a maximum of 152. Two hundred North American BT-9B type, low-winged, single-motored monoplanes with a top speed...
Lightly ballasted, she wallowed tipsily in taxi tests, thrice dipped a wing in the water, twice had to be towed in. One glowering afternoon last week, her port mooring-ring snapped and the wind-tossed ship could not be held to her mooring. As far as Veteran P.A.A. Test Pilot Edmund Allen could see, there was only one thing to do. Starting his motors, he ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step...
This day all three tires of the new-fangled tricycle, or nosewheel, landing gear were firm.† DC-4 glistened in the sun, its four 1.400 horsepower motors thumping idly. In climbed Pilot Carl Cover. The great ship surged forward, took off in less than twelve seconds. On the ground, Douglas craftsmen threw their hats in the air, slapped each other on the back. In the air DC-4 stayed for an hour and a half, then landed gently where it had started...
...nerve to approach an explosive theme. Blockade is no sensational polemic. U. S. cinemaddicts who are familiar with the history of Spain's Civil War may trace a similarity between certain incidents in the picture and the invasion of the Basque provinces, the arrival of the food ship Seven Seas Spray in Bilbao, and the air raids on Madrid and Barcelona. On the vast majority of U. S. cinemaddicts these verisimilitudes may well be lost, and Blockade will stand on its meagre merits as one more incident in the career of Madeleine Carroll as the cinema's most...