Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright sands and in the bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name...
...bearish item. Like other western roads, the Southern Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast. Fast new freighters go from San Diego to New York in 13 days; freight cars take...
Nitrates. Ten thousand square miles of sodium nitrate, important fertilizer, have been discovered in southwest Africa on both sides of the Elephant and Nosob Rivers. Said Professor Smeath Thomas of Cape Town University who made the report: "There is a strong resemblance to the conditions prevalent in Chile. . . . Profits should...
...months ago Cramer backed Aviation Editor Wood into a Chicago hotel room and talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley at the northernmost tip of Labrador, skip over water but in sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland ice cap to Angmagsalik and then over water to Reykjavik, Iceland. From Iceland they...
...Gast and Wood, none of whom could navigate a ship except by dead reckoning, thus set off in the 'Untin' Bowler last week. They landed at Great Whale on Hudson Bay, were held there two days because of bad weather. Next stop was to be Port Burwell, Cape Chidley, Labrador. The silence that ensued left followers of the flight more serious things to ponder than the origin of the name 'Untin' Bowler...