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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack has massed against the fortifications. As the bombing squadron comes in through the Golden Gate the attack planes rapidly circle the presidio in a protective maneuver. The main bombardment group bombs the presidio, turns below us toward Mather Field as the pursuit planes follow. . . . Goodbye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...sketched the position of two "enemy submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography, the radiophoto device was developed by Westinghouse Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Rentschler Triumphant | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

According to Admiral Magruder and the Navy's Bureau of Navigation these maneuvers proved the "high vulnerability" of the carrier at the hands of an attacking squadron, which was offset by "the tremendous advantage in a main action by that side which had command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naval Air Matters | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...because of the football prowess of son "Obie" at the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City Times sent one Merle Blakely, staff writer, to assist and report the bandit hunt. From the railhead of the only railway in the State of Nayarit the Mexican Government hastily sent out a squadron of cavalry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Obie's Father | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

Author Ben Ray Redman, 34, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the War, was scout pilot of the 79th Squadron of the British Expeditionary Forces. Poet, critic, essayist, translator, short-story-writer, he was literary editor of The Spur, now writes a weekly column, "Old Wine in New Bottles," for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1926 he married Actress Frieda Inescort. Other books: Masquerade, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gustave Flaubert-a Biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crashes | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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