Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spurred by the apparent immediacy of transatlantic transport test flights, New York City last week finally bestirred itself to make ready for them. In Manhattan, the Sinking Fund Commission voted to acquire and improve North Beach Airport at a cost of some $8,000,000. On Flushing Bay, L. I., near the site of the coming World's Fair, it can be reached from midtown in 20 minutes over the new Triborough Bridge...
Pilot and cameraman were rescued with minor injuries, certain parts of the ship salvaged, and the rest left, half submerged, on the beach...
...that matter, no less official, for chiefs came, with their official advisers, from far and near to participate in the deliberations. Qualified experts carefully examined the wreck above and below waterline, and reported in detail to the august conferees, ranked in due order of precedence on the beach. After mature consideration the congress of chiefs pronounced the following findings for the information and guidance of their people...
Thereafter when the white man told tall tales about flying machines he was politely listened to with visible tolerance, but if he pressed his story, or attempted to substantiate it with pictures, he was ceremoniously escorted to the beach to view the bleached remains of the white man's folly, and to listen to the proper member of the local chief's staff comment sadly on "white man's lies...
Edsel Ford, son of Henry, bought an estate on Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach...