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...pursuit craft and preceded by 18 attack planes executed this theoretical destruction. In a 100-second diving assault the attack planes delivered an effective fire equal to an infantry division of 30,000 men supported by divisional artillery. The Red defense, surprised, was unable to down a single bomber. Later in the day, a combined Blue and Red air force thrice circled Cincinnati, theoretically dropped hundreds of bombs, wiped...
Preparations were made for sending a Keystone twin-motored bomber from Ohio to "destroy" lower Manhattan at night...
Interviewed by reporters, would-be-dancing-murderess Manzano admitted the plot, gave love for Bomber Balda as a reason for her implication, denied that Mother Concepcion had attended meetings. Said Balda, in exoneration of the clergy, "I alone am responsible for my actions." Toral hinted that he had been inspired, but not incited, by the nun. Mother Concepcion, herself, explained that four years ago cruel laws had driven her from her convent, and that her house had become a centre where people liked to gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison...
...extinguish the bomb. Similarly Little Tsar Boris, when fired upon by assassins (TIME, April 27, 1925), whipped out a heavy automatic pistol and fired back. . . . As Chief Ikonomoff searched rapidly in the dark hallway of his home, vivid questions may have flashed before his mind. Who was the bomber? Perhaps an accomplice seeking to avenge the three political "outs" who were executed (TIME, June 8, 1925), after they blew up the Sveti Krai Cathedral, in Sofia, just before a state funeral. Or perhaps the bomb thrower was "just a man with a grudge." There was no telling. In Bulgaria...
...monster all-metal bombing biplane at the Bristol, Pa., factory of the Huff-Daland Airplanes Inc. Bigger, stronger, all-metal, it was one of many new types of bombing planes that are abuilding in various shops for the Army Air Service, in competition to succeed the Martin bomber as official type for the national bombing fleet, which numbers at present, in Panama, Hawaii, the Philippines, etc., about 100. The Cyclops is a monster many times as formidable, many times as agile as its fabled namesake.* Standing more than 20 ft. high, with 85 ft. of wingspread...