Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly a squadron of Japanese bombers came tearing at the U. S. flotilla. Bombs struck and sank the Panay, burned and sank three Standard Oil ships. Bursting with pride at having scored four hits the Japanese airmen immediately flashed news of what they had done to Japanese headquarters in Shanghai. Meanwhile, in the muddy, choppy Yangtze, passengers and crew of the U. S. vessels kept afloat as best they could until ships of the British flotilla came to the rescue. Of 72 persons believed to have been aboard the Panay, 63 had been rescued at latest reports, an American seaman...
...dugout officers fulminating in service clubs against the new order last week could not have the satisfaction of belittling their new Chief of Staff as an upstart. Lord Gort is a sixth Viscount, an old Harrovian, a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron, and grandson of famed Robert Smith Surtees, author of the fox hunters' bible Handley Cross. It also happens that he is a professional soldier of great ability, holds the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration...
...closed circuit course breaking three speed records for planes carrying up to 4,409 (2,000 kg.) Ib. payload. His speed was 267 m.p.h., four miles faster than the previous record which he himself established last July. With him flew his flying instructor, Squadron-Commander Colonnello Attilio Biseo, who when in Rome acts as personal pilot to his pupil's father...
...three days last week the cagiest David Harums of the U. S. milled around a rectangular tanbark enclosure on Manhattan's Squadron A Armory, squinting knowingly as 226 harness horses were trotted or paced, one by one, up & down the narrow track. Walking sticks flashed in the air as bids were raised again & again and the raucous-voiced auctioneer pounded his gavel, announced the buyers. Thus was sold $206,000 worth of U. S. horseflesh at the 43rd annual Old Glory Sale, capping the most successful year in the history of U. S. harness racing...
...down by 130 executions. Meanwhile, the mere presence in the Balearics of Son Bruno Mussolini (TIME. Nov. 8) provoked so many bomb raids as Leftists tried to exterminate him, that last week Spanish Rightists were vastly relieved when Bomber Bruno flew back to Italy with part of his Fascist squadron...