Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eighteen times, with the undeviating regularity of a sentry pacing his beat, Lieut. Smith towed his special high visibility target over their heads, he neither twisted, dived nor dodged. He flew at an average altitude of only 1,500 ft., the target trailing 300 ft. below. Cooly, Army anti-aircrafting gunners ignored all but four of his perambulations, loosed upon the target a total of 8,000 shots during those, scored five hits. Dauntlessly they loosed 8,000 more missiles, each costing $25, upon a second target, towed by another Air Service Lieutenant, scored 14 hits...
...question. It was even noted that William Slocum ot Boston, resident in Geneva, had denied that he was on hand as a personal representative of U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg to attend the Council's meeting. But no particular thought or attention was given to preparing a special reception for M. Quinones de Leon, representative of Spain in the Council and President of the Council...
...view to throwing out foreign control of tariff collection-or, if that is unobtainable, to secure such high duties as will strengthen it by increasing its revenue and enabling it to reduce internal taxes. If the Chinese can induce the conference to make preparations for the abolition of extraterritoriality (special privileges for foreigners resident in China) - that would be another feather...
...perhaps most willing of all the Powers to meet th& Chinese with concessions. But the trouble is that the general attitude of the Powers is that a stable government well disposed and able to protect foreigners, their property and concessions must be established before they will give up their special rights and privileges under present treaties. Yet, the condition is such, according to most observers, that the prospect of developing a stable and powerful government because of increasing anti-foreign sentiment lies only in that government's securing the abrogation of those special treaty privileges...
When friends tell you tall stories of their rough sea passage-how mountainous, star-blotting waves towered "50, 60, 100 feet above our trembling ship," refer them to an article that appeared last week in the Social Politischer Dienst (Berlin). Accurate determination with a special cinema camera had, it was stated, shown that ocean waves in a light breeze were from 2 to 4 yards high (i.e:, above sea level). In a "high sea," waves might rise to 9 yards ; in a "violent gale," to 10 or 12 yards...