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...metal construction. It is powered with four 800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps-first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors. The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high- camber cantilever wing. While the Boeing's fuselage is designed to carry bomb-racks, it would need but slight modification to become a commercial airliner...
President Terra hastened to ask President Vargas to forget any silly rumors he may have heard of an anti-Terra plot. President Vargas effusively assured his host that he knew the rumors to be ridiculous. However, the bomb explosions that nightly interrupted Vargas' sleep in Montevideo made the visiting President uneasy. On the third day the two presidents and their womenfolk went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist...
...Toul, in Nancy and around Pont ä-Mouson, we were bombed on every clear night and shelled occasionally to vary the monotony. Later, in the Meuse Argonne offensive, bombs were our nightly bedtime story rain or shine. I never heard of any of our immediate outfit suffering any bodily ills from a bomb and Nancy, in particular, was a well-curried town. Metz was only 20 miles away and Nancy caught it both coming and going, the bombers dropping a part of their load on the way out and dumping the remainder on their way back. They did considerable property...
...Bombs cannot be aimed with any accuracy and as likely as not, a bomb aimed at a railroad station or an ammunition dump will land on a church or a hospital. More likely still, it'll hit plain dirt. The fact that the 307th Sanitary Train, consisting of four field hospitals and four ambulance companies, numbering all told about 800 men, never lost a single man from a bomb, their only casualties being the result of a misdirected 16-inch shell which landed in the kitchen of one of our field hospitals, goes to show that bombs aren...
...four events are to be contests in spot-landing, bomb-dropping, and balloon bursting, and a race of about ten miles. Wilbur L. Cummings '37 and Arthur W. Nelson '38 are favored to garner the first places in the spotlanding while George F. Fox, III '37 will probably take the ten mile race...