Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Jan. 19). All papers last week harked back to the great mutiny of 1797 when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews off Spithead and off the Nore turned on their officers. That came in the British Navy's most glorious period. Nelson had just helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Six months after the mutiny Admiral Duncan beat the Dutch at Camperdown...
...there was no suggestion of hoax in the rescue at sea of Willy Rody, Christian Johanssen and Fernando Costa Viega whose Junkers monoplane Esa fell into the sea on their transatlantic flight from Portugal last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 21). A Norwegian freighter found them afloat off Cape Pine...
...Capetown last week, bearded Boers and other members of the South African Party struggled through a party convention, listened to innumerable speeches in Cape Dutch and English, introduced innumerable resolutions. One motion, introduced by the followers of a Col. D. Reitz, startled the floor and set international cables buzzing. Moved the Reitzers...
...North German Lloyd liner Europe. hove-to with engines idling 600 mi. off -Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west...
This procedure was not extraordinary. Mail planes have been catapulted from the Europa and Bremen and from the French Line's lie de France many a time. But never had it been attempted so far from New York. Mail planes heretofore have left ships off Cape Cod, 600 or 700 mi. from port. The Europa was 1.275 mi. out of New York. Six hours after leaving the steamer the seaplane alighted at Sydney, Cape Breton Island, discharged its Canadian mail, refuelled. Then it flew all night down the coast to Bridgeport. Conn., fuelled again, taxied up to the Europa...