Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dashing attempt of the U.S. Navy to turn the tide in the Battle of Java became public property at last. The U.S.S. Langley, hulking old aircraft tender, was bombed and sunk Feb. 27. She was knocked out by Japanese land-based bombers as she approached Java with a cargo of U.S. fighting planes that might have won the battle and preserved the key of the Indies for the Allies. More than half of the survivors who were picked up by destroyers and transferred to the naval oiler Pecos, were lost two days later when the oiler was sunk...
...whipped nine Jap bombers at high altitude. Anti-aircraft slammed against the chattering of machine guns, and the convoy zigzagged in a crazy pattern. The Jap took dead aim and let go. His first salvo missed. The second took the Langley fairly. Dive-bombers bored in, slammed the old tender again & again...
...patrol bombers). Two heavy cruisers were sunk, and the attacking airmen thought, with varying degrees of certainty, that they had also sunk a light cruiser, three destroyers, five troop-jammed transports, a gunboat and a minesweeper. They damaged a fourth cruiser, a fourth destroyer, six transports, an aircraft tender and a gunboat.* In a later attack on New Britain, U.S. Army bombers thought that they sank another Jap cruiser, damaged still another. U.S. and Australian airmen destroyed 12 Jap planes on an airdrome at Lae, shot another from...
...capacity on account of possible air raids. This season's biggest match, England v. Scotland, will be played on April 18 at Glasgow, where the grounds can hold 150,000. Last week the firemen of Bolton, Lancashire caused a minor scandal when they borrowed the National Fire Service tender to make a 278-mile round trip for a soccer game with the firemen of Dumfries, Scotland...
...When a person drinks too much alcohol, or whenever tissues are damaged, some of the body's natural proteins turn into a substance called histamine. Some researchers believe that histamine dilates the tender arteries of the tough membrane (dura mater) that lines the skull, and a splitting hangover headache is the result. High fevers and various kinds of infections also distend these arteries and cause pain...