Word: caledonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cargo), earmarked three for its transatlantic service, the rest for its Pacific venture. Because Kingman Reef and Pago Pago, Samoa, stops 2 and 3 on its original route, provided inadequate facilities for the huge Boeings, Pan American constructed new landing bases on Canton Island and Noumea, New Caledonia, otherwise held to the same route, which now goes San Francisco-Honolulu-Canton Island-Noumea-Auckland...
...experiment. Nonetheless, the Mercury will twice more shuttle across the Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal and Port Washington. More serious items on Imperial Airways' transatlantic schedule: five flights by the De Havilland four-motor Albatross, four flights by the Cabot, a seaplane of the same genus as the Caledonia and the Cambria which made ten flights...
...same amount of exercise as 18 holes of golf, the game is popular with oldsters. Every sport has a Grand Old Man. But in curling every team has one. He is the skip, a venerable player whose role during the game is tantamount to dictator. Last week when Caledonia faced Schenectady at Utica, Caledonia was led by grizzled James Whyte, 75, who thinks nothing of playing 42 ends in one day. Septuagenarian Whyte, aided by his teammate. Septuagenarian A. P. Roth, outplayed the comparatively young Schenectady team, beat them 15-to-14, took the Fred Allen Medal. Then with...
...from Port Washington three days later climbed the high-sided Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia for her sixth Atlantic crossing via Newfoundland and Ireland. Including a stop at Montreal, she got to her base at Foynes, Ireland in 20 hr. 27 min. flying time, just as her sister ship Cambria was getting set to reverse...
Completing their first round-trip survey flights preliminary to regular transatlantic service, Pan American Airways' Clipper III and Imperial Airways' Caledonia passed each other one day last week high above the tossing wastes of the Atlantic Ocean. Both big flying boats were maintaining constant radio contact with British stations in Newfoundland and Ireland and Pan American bases in New Brunswick and New York. Few hours later the flights ended uneventfully. The Caledonia landed at Foynes in Ireland, continued to Southampton. The Clipper III landed at Botwood, Newfoundland, continued to Port Washington...