Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Kansas kite builder got an order for some more of his quantity-produced flying machines. The U. S. Army bought a half-million dollars' worth* of Martin 167 attack bombers, two-engine ships that can streak through the air at 360 m.p.h., tote a ton of bombs, maneuver against the nimblest pursuit ship in the air. It was no two-bit order, but it was not big enough to give pleasure to Glenn Luther Martin. He had hoped to fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor...
...answer was the new 167, a sleek, mid-wing job. Most expensive of Martin's war babies, the first one cost $882,000 before its tests were completed. Last January, while Douglas was under scrutiny in the Senate for showing its new attack bomber to France before the U. S. had a crack at it-by and with the consent of President Roosevelt-Martin calmly went ahead with his order of 1675 for France...
Also he entered a 167, fitted with U. S. instruments and equipped for Air Corps tactical missions, in the Army's attack-bomber competition. Douglas, which has also been one of the big Army contractors, had lost its entry when it started the Senate asking questions: at Santa Monica Test Pilot Johnny Cable cracked up the new Douglas ship, with a French observer aboard, and was killed. Re-entering the competition late, Douglas turned up with a slicked-up job, reputedly with a speed above 400 miles an hour, and, in a Garrison finish, last week took first money...
...discs on the under side of raiders' wings before ever a Japanese bomb had been dropped. The people of Madrid and Barcelona learned to duck whenever they saw the red-&-yellow wing insignia of Nationalist ships overhead. Fighting tribesmen in Palestine know they must take to cover whenever attack planes sweep down on them with the blue-white-&-red wing targets of Great Britain...
Paraphrased Hendrik Willem Van Loon: ". . . Our left flank has been annihilated, our right flank has surrendered, and our centre is beginning to give way; we shall therefore proceed to the attack...