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Boston, Halifax, Cape Breton, Cape Bonavista, Cape Clear (Ireland), Cornwall, Cherbourg, LeHavre, Paris. The ship will probably be started with all three motors roaring, a special carriage being necessary to help her off the ground. (This will be dropped en route, ordinary wheels serving for the Paris landing.) As fuel is used up, one motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: S-35 | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...President transmitted to the Senate a recommendation of Secretary Hughes that U. S. sovereignty be extended over Swains Island, a little speck of land off the Bonavista Bay district of Newfoundland, not far from Greenspond Island. It was discovered by a Briton who deeded it to an American. Great Britain does not contest our sovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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