Word: anticosti
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Died, Gaston Menier, 79, French Senator and chocolate tycoon; in Chateau de Noisiel, his estate near Paris. In 1896 he bought for $160,000 Anticosti Island, big as Connecticut, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, "commuted" to France in his yacht, was feudal overlord of 500 families until the island was sold...
Easily the Sikorsky flew to St. John. N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh. Pilot Hutchinson was emphatic in stating he would take as long as necessary to insure safety. Nevertheless the Detroit Free Press fiercely flayed the "inhumanity" of Mr. & Mrs. Hutchinson in "compelling their two children to share their perils...
...initiator was the Swedish seaplane Sverige, a Junkers like the Bremen of past fame. The Sverige's crew were Captain Albin Ahrenberg, Lieut. Axel Flodin and Mechanic Robert Ljunglund. Their course was to include stops at Stockholm (Sweden), Reykjavik (Iceland), Ivigtut (Greenland), Anticosti Island (Quebec), New York. Last week the Swedes got to Reykjavik, where a broken oil line forced their premature landing and delayed, at least, their completing the trip...
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