Word: blankenburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Lloyd liner Europe. hove-to with engines idling 600 mi. off -Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west with...
...Blankenburg, Hollywood athletic club swimmer: The national 220-yard A. A. U. breaststroke championship in Chicago. While the crowd cheered Blankenburg, Johnny Rea, New York athletic club swimmer, beaten in the race, sank with cramps in the middle of the pool, came up, cried for help unheard, sank again. A spectator in dinner clothes, Lawrence Barr, jumped into the water, pulled...