Word: diego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They float down the Ohio on a raft with a Captain and a Professor. They penetrate fertile Kentucky, pause in boisterous St. Louis, journey through the Southwest with grave discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...
...inventor of the plane-parachute was Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Harry A. Doucett, of San Diego Navy air base. The contrivance weighed 45 Ibs. and measured 50 ft. across. Plane, pilot and equipment weighed just short of a ton. Naval observers were most enthusiastic after the test and Pilot Oelze was for another drop at once, to a level landing, with a slightly larger parachute...
...Mexico had anything to do with this," said able Agent Hopkins, "I believe it was simply an attempt of the 'outs' to get 'in.'" General Estrada, unable to furnish $20,000 personal bail, languished with the rest of his "army" in the jail at San Diego last week, charged with "organizing a military expedition against a friendly country." Bland Exchange. Between the Archbishop of Mexico and President Calles there passed last week an exchange of notes more amiable in tone than any previous pronouncement by the Episcopate or Administration since enforcement of the anti-religious Constitution...
...airline non-stop flight was made in May, 1923, from Mineola, N. Y., to San Diego, Calif., 2,520 miles in 26 hrs., 50 min., by Lieuts. John A. Macready and Oakley Kelly...
...queue of Colonels waiting to be made Brigadier Generals. He will have to wait in line about six months or a year more than he would had he not invited General Butler to his party that night. Later, Colonel Williams was transferred from San Diego to San Francisco, put in charge of the western recruiting service...