Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Suez Canal management announced that its gigantic suction dredgers had completed the job of deepening the 100-mi, long ditch through the shifting sand of the Sinai Desert from 33 to 34 ft., to oblige primarily big Australian freighters, incidentally the British Navy. *Wafd means "delegation." The party takes its name from the delegation led by Zaghlul Pasha to Paris in 1919 to voice Egyptian Nationalist aspirations at the Peace Conference...
...m.p.h., only 200 ft. above the waves. At that rate he should have reached Singapore long before Pilot Melrose. But when Melrose finally slid in for a landing, Sir Charles was two hours overdue. On what he asserted was to be his last long flight, the great Australian aviator and Co-Pilot Pethybridge had left London on Wednesday for a "leisurely" trip home. When the single-motored monoplane reached Allahabad on Thursday, the flyers were scarcely three hours behind the record. Eagerly they headed on, past Akyab, out over the Bay of Bengal. . . . When, as the hours ticked by, there...
Regardless of man-eating sharks which infest their waters, robust Australians cockily make sea-swimming their favorite sport. Since a shark digests an Australian in a few days, it was major Commonwealth news when a huge tiger shark, thrashing around under the eyes of fascinated bathers in an aquarium near Coogee Beach, suddenly spewed up the contents of its stomach including an undigested human arm tattooed with two boxers wearing red shorts...
Promptly recognized as the arm of a locally popular barfly named James Smith who had disappeared two weeks before, the undigested arm put Australian sleuths on their mettle. By last week they had reconstructed the "Shark Murder" about as follows: A drug-smuggling gang hired Smith to scuttle a yacht they had insured for $42,500 with Lloyd's. When Scuttler Smith later tried to blackmail the gang with threats of exposing them to Lloyd's, the gang had him dismembered and fed piece by piece to sharks in Sydney Harbor. Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed...
...physical waiver and a license. In 1930 Oilman Hall bought a new Lockheed Vega also called Winnie Mae. In that ship Post quickly got national attention by winning the 1930 Bendix Trophy Race, scooting from Los Angeles to Chicago non-stop in 9 hr. 9 min. With laconic Australian Harold Gatty as navigator, Wiley Post made his first round-the-world flight in 1931 in 8 days 15 hr. 51 min. Two years later, embittered over his failure to get rich, he took off on his second round-the-world flight-alone, without even a parachute or life-raft. Seven...