Word: diego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is the greatest range ever embodied in any airplane. True, Macready and Kelly flew 2,600 mi. non-stop across the Continent and still had gas to spare in their Fokker monoplane. But their ship was stripped bare. The new seaplane, when making a single hop from San Diego to Honolulu, will carry not just gas, but a full crew of five men and powerful fighting and bombing equipment...
...course. Then the little light of a freight train that labored along far below pointed out the way, which lay directly along the route of the Texas Pacific R. R. After midnight, the ship -that haughty ship that almost stubbed its toe on a mountain peak-reached San Diego and the Pacific...
...arrival was marked by a holiday for school children and others. In Tucson, Ariz., the next stop, they were again feted for their feat, in spite of the fact that Governor G. W. P. Hunt, stricken with appendicitis, could not be present. The following day, they hopped to San Diego and stared, like stout Cortez, with eagle...
...biggest shadow in the world"; what??"fell"; where?? "across San Diego"; when??"to-day"; how??"as the moon crossed the face...
...biggest shadow in the world? 235,000 miles high, 105 miles wide, and 75 miles thick at its densest part?fell across San Diego today, the shadow of the moon as it crossed the face...