Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publicity is a prime requisite of any Goodwill trip. When the Hoover-bearing battleship Maryland passed down South America's west coast, it was found that the high Andes were an obstacle to telling the world by ship's radio what the traveller was saying and doing. The Navy Department therefore obligingly ordered the cruiser Rochester to steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could...
...pocket the U. S. citizenry pays for Prohibition, out of another for bootleg liquor. Next year the enforcement funds will be some 37 millions-$13,500,000 for the Prohibition Bureau, $14,686,798 for the Coast Guard, $9,000,000 for the Department of Justice. The House passed on the first two items last week...
...single explanation has yet been found for these movements, but they have been attributed to various causes, such as the dashing of the waves on the coast, rippling movements in the ground caused by strong winds, temperature changes, barometric changes, and like phenomena...
Geographically it is interesting that Santiago. Chile, on the West Coast of South America, is due south of Boston, on the East Coast of North America. In other words the whole South American Continent lies thousands of miles farther East than most U. S. citizens would guess...
Dunedin, Fla., city of 1,500 on the sandy Gulf coast, last week made itself memorable among advertising communities. It lacks the industrial opportunities of Dallas, Oakland and similar growing cities. Nonetheless it wants business builders to settle there and for that purpose hired a smart secretary for its Chamber of Commerce-Milton M. Murray. When Bernt Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights...