Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrambled a sailor to hoist his shirt as a flag of surrender, had his head blown off by a freakish hit of one of the submarine's projectiles. Freakish too was the escape of the Rightist sea-raiding cruiser Almirante Cervera. She was caught by a Leftist air squadron which rained some 20 bombs, some so close that spray from their splashes spattered her decks, but zig-zagging frantically she opened up with her anti-aircraft batteries, escaped...
...TOMLINSON Lieut. Comdr., AF, USNR Commanding Officer Squadron VN-17RD9...
...July the 'hoppers sprout wings and take to the air, may do even more damage after flying has started than when crawling. Last week Watson Davis, reporting for Science Service, told how some curious person had marked a squadron of 'hoppers with luminous paint, to see how fast the crawling horde was moving. Speed...
Posted on his 53rd birthday, that terse notice gave Harold Stirling Vanderbilt what he has been working for all winter. When the Royal Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last...
...with the United Auto Workers and sympathizers augmented by some 5,000 members from nearby Flint and Pontiac. But while downtown was literally mad, East Lansing, three miles distant, was minding its own affairs, college students were attending classes as usual. At 4:10 p. m. an unauthorized "flying squadron" made up of the prime downtown hell-raisers entered East Lansing with an eye to closing business establishments and the restaurants. These first 60-odd men closed all stores along the main street with the exception of one-a pocket in the wall known as Jim Brakeman's Bootery...