Word: capes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propose to fly non-stop (with a good pilot) to Cape Town. When over Victoria Falls my three darling babies, Homer, Luther and Sundae, will each make a parachute jump in honor of Queen Victoria, Dr. Livingstone and ex-Mayor James ('Washington') Walker, respectively...
...Bounty's voyage, as planned, looked almost like a two-year pleasure trip: she was to call at Tahiti by way of Cape Horn, take on a supply of breadfruit trees for the West Indies, and come home again...
...Vagabond likes to remember once in September when he walked through the town to the harbor, and watched the sailors leaving their ships. He thought of a time when this town sent out the proudest ships in the world, with famous captains, now forgotten. They cleared Cape Horn in midwinter, and struck for whales in the Sea of Japan and on the Malabar Coast. That was a century back. Now they cast their nets in the west Atlantic, and when Autumn comes they glide back to port...
Some 20 little towns on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were the scenes of a strange visitation last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support...
...Bellanca monoplane was the ship that Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn flew, by fits & starts, around the world last year. Pilot Pangborn was at the field to see his old ship take off for its second transatlantic hop. After the takeoff. the big white plane was seen over Cape Cod, then 1,200 mi. on its course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American Nurse was supposed to have landed in Rome, a total eclipse...