Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead was ordered. Quarantine of the entire district was imminent. It was a nauseous vale of murk and putrescence...
...same time consisted of the organization of a drive for the Hangar Fund. Members of the Club hope to so organize the fund as to allow for the construction of the hangar next spring. Likewise, plans were discussed for the sending of the ship to the Loening Intercollegiate Air meet at New York, to be held on December 1. Attendance at this meet will mark the climax of the fall activity of the Club...
After giving a year of successful service to the members of the Harvard Flying Club and their guests, the Club Travel Air plane has been turned in for a new and later model equipped with a Curtiss OXX 6 motor...
...Travel Air plane was successfully flown to Cambridge from Wichita, Kansas, by W. N. Bump '29 and Frank Sproul '29, Flying Club pilots, a few weeks ago, and now is in action daily flying to and from the Boston Airport. The trip east was executed with no trouble, and without accident, the only delay being a day's stop at Schenectady caused by the wind drifts resulting from the Atlantic seacoast storm...
Last week the National Air carnival at Mines field reached its climax. A Navy aviator climbed 10,000 feet in four-and-a-half minutes. An Army flier, Lieut. J. J. Williams was killed in formation stunt flying, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh took his place, continued Immelman turns, loops, barrel rolls. But a Navy trio gave a superior exhibition of stunts...