Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darkness "black as the shirts of the pilots," General Italo Balbo's squadron of twelve great Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes roared along the water off Bolama, west coast of Africa, to take-off for Brazil (TIME, Jan. 5). The first group of three black-winged ships, led by the General himself, vanished into the night, followed by a green-winged triad. Next came the red wings, but the third plane of that group faltered under its 10,000-lb. load, nosed down into the sea, killed its mechanic. The last triad, white-winged, was in the air ten minutes when...
Governor of the idyllic Fiji Isles from 1912 until 1918 was Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott. "Toward the end of 1914," said he in England last fortnight, "I received a message that Von Spee's squadron was heading toward the Fijis and was only a day's voyage away...
...more than $100,000 from their 1930 trans-atlantic flight and all that went with it. According to Variety's Paris correspondence: "They came home tired and disillusioned. French Government carried them on the hip for $300,000. No way to get that back." Balbo's Squadron. Into the little harbor of Bolama on the west coast of Africa last week glided 14 Savoia-Marchetti flying boats. Led by Italy's 34-year-old air minister, General Italo Balbo, they had flown in four stages from Orbetello, near Rome. Now mechanics swarmed over the ships-great twin...
...Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment. Present were all the prime professional Prohibitors-Francis Scott McBride (Anti-Saloon League), Clarence True Wilson (Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals), Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole (Women's Christian Temperance Union), Ernest Hurst Cherrington (World League Against Alcoholism), Oliver Stewart (Flying Squadron Foundation), Daniel Alfred Poling (World Christian Endeavor), Clinton Howard (National United Committee on Law Enforcement), Arthur James Barton (Southern Baptists), William Sheafe Chase (International Reform Bureau). Most conspicuous absentee: Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...Fighting Three," known also to the service as the yellow-tailed "Striking Eagles," is made up of single-seater Boeing fighters flown by 18 officers and conditioned by 65 enlisted men. From President Hoover on Dec. 5. Lieut. Commander Samuel Paul Ginder (squadron commander, July 1, 1920-May 15, 1930) will receive the trophy for his mates. After a year, a replica will be his to keep...