Word: diego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Human Cost of attracting public attention to the Cleveland show, by derbies, races, stunts, was high. Killed: Marvel Crosson, of San Diego (at Wellton, Ariz., racing from Santa Monica); Thomas G. ("Jack") Reid, of Downey, Cal. (making a solo endurance record); Edward J. ("Red") Devereaux, of Woodside, L. I., Mrs. Devereaux, and Edward J. Reiss of New York (at Boston, racing from Philadelphia). Injured: Lady Mary (Sophie Elliott-Lynn) Heath, near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing...
...Married. Diego Rivera, of Mexico City, mural painter, 1929 winner of the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architecture (TIME, May 6); and one Frieda Kohlo; in Coyoacan, Mexico...
Died. Marvel Crosson. 25, of San Diego. Cal., aviatrix, woman's altitude record holder (23,996 ft.); near Wellton, Ariz.. when she, an entrant in the Women's Air Derby (see pp. 18 & 50) jumped from her dead-motored airplane...
Cross-featured, huge, is Mexico's genial Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6). Expression of proletariat life is his art; conversation his hobby. Last week through his art and his hobby Artist Rivera became the centre of a political controversy...
...real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast. Fast new freighters go from San Diego to New York in 13 days; freight cars take about 14 days from seaboard to seaboard. In 1928, 9,868,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight went through the Canal...