Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily routine while writing Man's Hope was that of other Loyalist fliers-getting up before dawn, taking a bus from the Hotel Florida to the big municipal airport at Barajas, holding a conference on the day's plans, then taking off or waiting for a squadron to return. Hard-bitten Loyalist aviators recall Malraux's nervousness, his anxiety when planes did not get back on time, his animated conversation about everything but himself...
...American Legion Convention in Los Angeles proceeded the "Little Flower," veteran of a War-time bombing squadron, retired as a Major. Superpatriots protested against his attending because he has a confessed Communist in his administration (Simon Gerson) and is a member of the American Labor Party...
...English fog and mist, "Eastland's" bombers jabbed through coastal defenses and rained white rockets, indicating hits, on interior manufacturing centres, including Norfolk, Suffolk and North London. Territorials, firing anti-aircraft rockets, were unable to prevent "Eastland" squads from roaring over London. As a crowning gesture, one "Eastland" squadron located the defenders' GHQ at Hornchurch, Essex, gleefully swooped down to the attack just as the Air Secretary and his official party were making their inspection. A touch of grim realism was added to the mock war as seven planes crashed, six fliers were killed...
...dusky Harlem last week trundled a procession of black noise and magnificence, led by a sleek touring car on whose back perched a fattish, blinking, middle-aged Negro in a brown tweed suit whose peculiarity is that he recognizes himself as God. Behind Major J. ("Father") Divine rode a squadron of his women cultists straddling big brewery horses. Humbler worshipers followed in cars, trucks and afoot, in a line that stretched back through the hot streets almost a mile. "PEACE IS WONDERFUL!" shouted bright placards. "PEACE! PEACE!" Occasion for this celebration was a real-estate deal...
Japanese bombers, finding the Wuhan cities substantially unprotected, came over, squadron after squadron during the week, flying at from 10,000 to 15,000 feet, above the range of Chinese anti-aircraft batteries. More than 100 bombs dotted the Hankow airfield with yawning craters. Wuchang was systematically bombed by Japanese craft flying in parallel lines, with nearly 500 deaths in a single...