Word: cadiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SOUTH TO CADIZ-H.M. Tomlinson-Harper...
...Piccard popped her head out of the gondola of the stratosphere balloon in which she and her husband had taken off eight hours before from Detroit's Ford Airport. She found herself on a wooded farm near Cadiz, Ohio. The big bag, limp, torn and empty, was dismally draped over a tall elm. In a treetop the Piccards' U. S. flag flapped bravely...
...over Spain and across frontiers they poured last week. 9,000 monarchists, clericals, politicians. Some of them had been behind bars or exiled two years, when tousle-haired President Alcala Zamora finally signed Spain's bitterly argued political amnesty bill. Greatest excitement took place before the gates of Cadiz Military Prison where a cheering crowd of bullfighters, waiters and young aristocrats assembled to welcome paunchy General José Sanjurjo, sentenced to death in 1932 for his abortive attempt to stage a monarchist revolution in Andalusia...
...hand. Germany, long ago first in the air with a dirigible service, announced that mail plane service across the South Atlantic would start Feb. 3. On that day a Luft Hansa flying boat is scheduled to take off from Stuttgart, Germany. She will roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean (TIME, Nov. 20). On the fourth day she will alight at Natal, Brazil-a trip which requires nine days by present airplane-&-steamer service. First eastward flight is slated for Feb. 7. A fortnightly...
MILTON RONSHEIM Cadiz, Ohio...