Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Canton Island in mid-Pacific short wave broadcasts came at noon and at 3 PM Boston time. At 6 PM a third. broadcast came from the coast of Peru. The sun was blotted out by the moon for the longest time at a landless point in the Pacific...
...prize money has been stolen. Chagrined to see her humiliated, Joe journeys to Hollywood to try to land her a film job. But the forced landing of an American Airlines plane at Waterloo gives screenstruck Cecilia her chance to meet Cinemactor Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), fly out to the Coast with him and her noisy sister Nellie (Patsy Kelly...
Notable absentees from the Randalls Island meet were three erstwhile I. C. 4-A winners, Stanford, University of Southern California and University of California, which last week competed, with seven other teams, in their own Pacific Coast Conference championships. At last month's Stanford-Southern California dual meet, Southern California's Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows pole-vaulted to a record 14 ft. 8½ in. At Los Angeles last week, Sefton and Meadows duplicated the feat by both vaulting 14 ft. 11 in., a full 4½ inches higher than George Varoffs accepted world's record...
...since I was married 30 years ago." Stricken with peritonitis in mid-Pacific last week, Mr. Baker was operated upon by his yacht's physician, assisted by a doctor and nurse haled from a passing liner. Radio brought further medical aid from Hawaii, sped by the Navy, the Coast Guard, the U. S. Public Health Service. Mrs. Baker dashed 5.500 mi. by air from Manhattan to arrive in Honolulu the day before her husband died...
...Hornet motors and flown by a crack crew of eight Pan American employes headed by Captain Harold E. Gray, veteran of the Pacific and South American runs. Trundling up from Pan American's temporary base at Port Washington, L. I. at 9:32 a. m., it skirted the coast to Atlantic City, then bored out over the ocean at 10,000 ft. above a fringe of clouds. With a 20-m.p.h. tail wind and guided by a direction finder at Bermuda, it hit its tiny target on the nose 4 hr. 45 min. later, slid to a landing...