Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nineteenth Day. The Pride of Detroit dropped at Tokyo. There Mr. Schlee found a cablegram: "Daddy: Please take the next boat home to us. We want you. (signed) Rosemarie." Rosemarie is ten. Soon wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu...
...Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII of Spain, courageous,! sporting, versatile, last week watched the regatta at Bilbao. The boat races over, he exhorted the young bloods of Spain to develop patriotism with sport, adding that sportsmanship among the nations was a less expensive way of promoting international concord than the League of Nations, of which Spain, huffed, is not at present an active member. (TIME, Sept. 20, 1926).? Said he, after announcing that the country would take part in the Olympic Games next year: "I have observed with satisfaction this year the increase in your series of boat races...
...stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled out. He had won $7,500. Three hours and a half later, after 19 hours in the chill water, fat William Erickson of New York, came slowly...
...their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
...hour struggle, they felt it foolhardy to fly through fog with 1,000 feet maximum altitude, gave up temporarily the transatlantic flight, returned to Le Bourget. ¶Capt. F. T. Courtney, English flyer, waited almost all summer to make the treacherous westward passage across the Atlantic in his flying boat, The Whale. With autumn coming and weather chances fading, he hopped off from Plymouth, England. Fearing the dangerous northern route on which were lost Nungesser and Coli, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, Courtney steered for the Azores. Head winds and thick weather fought with him. Cautious, he turned his ship...