Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early proof of the quick-thinking faculty Doolittle has so often exhibited in flying. A friend of mine who saw him "sail out" at Cleveland says that many a pilot near the hangars said "Even if he is a caterpillar, he's still the greatest in the air." The hearsay evidence may not be admitted- but I saw the knockout myself. W. A. BREWER...
...Union Pacific. Overland Limited, Chicago & San Francisco, 58 hr.-$10. Santa Fe. The Chief, Chicago & Los Angeles, 58 hr.-$10. Southern Pacific. Cascade Limited, San Francisco & Portland, 27¾ hr.-$3. No extra fare is charged on the best trains operated by the Atlantic Coast Line or the Seaboard Air Line into Florida. Nor do the northern transcontinentals apply an extra fare for travel on their limited trains. Most famed of these, all making the Chicago-Seattle run in 63 hours, are the Great Northern's Empire Builder, the Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited, the Chicago, Milwaukee...
...First the man rasped in a monotone. Then he began to finger his throat, and inflected words ensued: "After I lost my voice I could not bear it-to be a dummy, to talk with my hands. . . . I used to play the organ and knew how you can force air through a thing and get sounds. . . . There I got my idea. It took lots of practice to learn to talk again. The flesh had to be hardened and trained." Regally gossipy was Florestan Aguilar, Viscount of Casa Aguilar, of Madrid, in Chicago to be made an Honorary Fellow...
...steel islands (seadromes) which Edward R. Armstrong of Holly Oak, Del., proposes to anchor 375 miles apart across the Atlantic. The model, 1/32 the size of intended seadromes, consists essentially of a rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their waves did not touch the platform nor did they rock it. The heavy horizontal disks at the lower ends of the hollow columns, below...
...seadromes to be strung 375 miles apart between the 35th and 40th parallels, north latitude, between Long Island and Plymouth. The 375 miles is an easy jump for any plane. Hence the project presages safe and convenient airplane passage across the ocean, direct competition with both sea ships and air ships. Flying time between the continents, Mr. Armstrong calculates, will...