Word: capes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian named Karl Naumestnik, 38, last week walked across the English Channel from Cape Gris Nez to Dover. The direct distance is 20 mi. but currents carried the walker out of his course. He made the crossing in eight hours. On his feet he wore a pair of water skis. Two other Austrians tried to follow him but grew weary...
Spain is a member of the Pan-American Postal Union. Under that international convention U. S. letters carry only 2? postage to South and Central American countries. It costs no more to mail a letter from Duluth, Minn, to Punta Arenas. Chile, near Cape Horn than it does from Nogales, Ariz, across the street to Nogales, Mexico. Only South American exceptions to the 2? rate are Dutch and French Guiana, which, as non-members of -the Pan-American Postal Union, require 5? postage...
...West Chop on Martha's Vineyard. Andiamo beat the other M-boats, when Prestige, after leading half the way, dropped back to finish last in her class. The second day was so foggy the race committee considered calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo had run aground on Shovelful Shoal off the upper tip of Long Island; then that H.G. Leslie's 40-footer...
...gliding under her great spinnaker, made the most startling run of the cruise and reached Marblehead more than an hour ahead of the rest. After a day's racing at Marblehead the weather was calm again; the fleet had itself towed through the canal at the base of Cape Cod to Buzzard's Bay. There was a fresh breeze for the last day of the cruise but it chopped, changed, and finally almost faded away while Weetamoe led the fleet home to Newport...
...Other good places: Warwick, N. Y., Point Loma, Calif., South Wellfleet, Cape...