Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italia crashes on ice north of Spitsbergen, killing Motorist Vincenzo Pommella, separating Polar Pilgrims into two groups. Eight, led by Gen. Nobile, are left stranded with the wreckage of the cabin. Seven are blown away with the dirigible...
...minutes later, the foremast was split to the deck and carried the foresail and headsail down with it. The boom fell athwart the cabin, crushing it in and while we had a narrow escape, nobody was injured. . . . The snapped masts floating in the water threatened to crash into our side as they were pounded along by the waves...
Detroit women gathered about Pilot Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, onetime St. Paul parachute jumper (at 17), now a practical airplane dealer in Memphis. No Elder, Earhart, Boll or Rasche, Pilot Omlie is nevertheless a FIRST WOMAN, first to compete in the reliability tours. She flies a tiny cabin plane, takes her aviation intensely...
...from a place called Stone Bridge. Past beaver houses, mink holes, deer licks, naked rampikes, swarms of mosquitoes and a military outpost, who carefully examined the voyageurs, the newsgatherer came to a thin hedge screening the river from a lake which it entered. Across the lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching trout come to the surface to snatch morsels of liver, their semiweekly rations...
...bold fellow into the waters of Long Island Sound. Plates and crockery, not threats, had been her weapons last July, when she fell upon the persistent, scoop-seeking villains of the press at her son's wedding. On the Winona Fraulein Rasche, an interested spectator, lumbered to her cabin, rested...