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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best ostrich territory is the Cape of Good Hope. In 1925 there were 1,000,000 birds being grown there; now there are only about 25,000. (This of course does not include the strong-legged, ferocious wild ostrich often found herding with zebras and antelopes.) There are also ostrich farms in Egypt. Algeria, the French Riviera and the U. S. Largest U. S. farms (Jacksonville, Los Angeles) are run chiefly for tourists. One near Los Angeles used to buy plumes in Manhattan, paste them onto the birds' tails, sell them at 50? each, freshly clipped. Biggest Cape...
...snakes glared into each other's cold beady eyes, along came snake No. 3, a six-foot Cape cobra, which coiled itself nearby and raised its hooded head to inspect the tug-of-frog...
...York-Istanbul Big-framed Russell N. Boardman, onetime cowboy, motorcyclist and wingwalker, and small John L. Polando, onetime garage mechanic, pulled the Bellanca monoplane Cape Cod up from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and struck the well-travelled Great Circle Course to Europe. For two nights and a day the plane was unsighted from land or sea, even when it dropped a copy of the New York Times upon Le Bourget Field. It landed at Istanbul's Yeshilkeuy Airdrome, 5,011 mi. and 49 hr. from the takeoff. For their superb piloting and navigation, for being the first eastward...
...York-New York? Seventeen minutes after the Cape Cod took off, another Bellanca monoplane chased after her from the same field, the Miss Veedol, manned by Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn. They thought they could beat the eight-day record of Post & Gatty around the world. Their plane was much slower than the bulletlike Winnie Mae but it had a longer cruising range, and Herndon & Pangborn could take turns at the controls whereas Pilot Post was obliged to fly without relief. They gained time by cutting short their stops, but unscheduled landings put the Miss Veedol...
...exchanged with the Russian icebreaker Malygin. Unless further unknown land were sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther north. There was only the remotest possibility that he would venture to the Pole. More likely was the tentative course east to Northern Land, south to Cape Chelyuskin and back to Archangel via the Siberian Coast. Approximate distance: 6,200 mi. Estimated flying time...