Word: amphibianism
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Prizes of $5,000 for the development of aviation among college men have been offered by Grover C. Loening, designer of the Loening amphibian airplane. A race will be held at Mitchell Field on June 23 when college men, in their own or borrowed planes, will race for money. The race will be conducted under the auspices of the National Aeronautic Association with these judges: Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Reginald L. Brooks, Secretary of War for Aviation F. Trubee Davison, Thomas Hitchcock...
...Mitchell Field sponsored by the National Aeronautical Association next June, according to an announcement made last night by W. M. Bump '28 president of the Club. The entrants will be in competition for $5,000 in cash prizes and trophies donated by Grover C. Loening, designer of the Loening amphibian plane...
...Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation becomes increasingly mobile. Last week was delivered to F. Trubee Davison a new amphibian, capable of 700 miles flight, carrying three: The pilot, the Assistant Secretary, the Assistant Secretary's secretary...
...Barbour is leaving the position of associate curator of the reptile and amphibian department, and has been a lecturer in zoology, and curator of the Harvard College Library. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical. Society in London, of the Royal Asiatic Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of many other foreign and American scientific societies...
Because his Spirit of St. Louis had a sticky valve, Colonel Lindbergh hopped from Washington to Long Island in an Army pursuit plane, transferred (at Mitchel Field) to an amphibian plane, alighted on New York Harbor. Long before the hero touched foot on the island of Manhattan, the air was full of shrieks, confetti and shredded ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor...