Word: boatfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half years. Its flying capacity was 100 passengers. It was going on its trial runs. Dr. Dornier, usually self-contained and impassive, stood nervously on the lake shore, watch in hand. He gave a signal. The crew of 16 took their posts, the twelve motors thundered. The enormous flying boat slid out with ponderous ease across the glassy water after taxiing about for practice, the helmsman circled back for another signal, opened the throttles wide. After a run of 30 seconds, the gigantic ship lifted clear of the lake and flew. Dr. Dornier bursting with excitement and relief, said...
...extended U. S. air mail service down the west coast from Mollendo, Peru, to Santiago, Chile, thus completing the longest U. S. air mail route?Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, to Santiago, 3,900 mi. Scheduled travel time from New York to Santiago is 8 days, against 21 days by boat. Postage per half-ounce is 70¢ from any point...
Tommy Loughran, world's light- heavyweight boxing champion, training in Hoosick Falls, N. Y. for a bout with James J. Braddock, swam 100 yards (out and back) to rescue one Herta Ehmler who, plucking water lilies, had fallen out of her boat into Fairy Manor Lake...
...April 23, Carrier Rowan landed in Kingston, Jamaica, sailed Cuba-ward that night on a dirty native fishing boat under the eyes of the Spanish patrol which was scouring the Caribbean. Flat on his back against a gunwale, Carrier Rowan heard a Spaniard swagger alongside shouting queries; heard his pilot's lazy answer, the Spaniard's satisfied grunt...
...been Columbia's 150-pounders, winners of a preliminary regatta at Marlow and during the U. S. rowing season losers of only one race. Eliminating the Westminster Bank crew in the first heat, Columbia stroked to a one-length victory in the second over the Kingston Rowing Club boat, coached by R. C. Sheriff, young insurance-broker author of Journey's End, current War play. Columbia was eliminated in a windy third heat by the heavier crew of Trinity College, Cambridge...