Word: diego
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Once he made an excursion outside his specialized field, with painful results. Learning to fly in 1917, he left San Diego in an Army plane for Calexico, Calif., unhappily named neighbor of Mexicali, Mexico. The plane was forced down, lost, 50 miles south of the border. U. S. and Mexican troops and civilians searched four days before finding Col. Bishop's companion. He directed the searchers 30 miles to the south where lay Col. Bishop, unable to talk or walk. He had subsisted on two sandwiches, two oranges, radiator water from the wrecked plane...
...lawyers. To promote aviation with knowledge gained after accidents, Secretary Young pointed two instances: the September crash of the T. A. T. liner on Mt. Taylor in New Mexico resulted in recommendation that the course be changed; the January crash of the T. A. T.-Maddux liner between San Diego and Los Angeles resulted in a rule requiring air transport pilots to land if forced lower than 500 feet (TIME...
...other U. S. airports of entry are at Douglas, Ariz., Nogales, Ariz., Los Angeles (two stations), San Diego, El Paso, Miami, Palm Beach, Brownsville...
...Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh dined at San Diego last week with the J. L. Madduxes, their week-end hosts, a trimotored Ford of the T9. A. T.-Maddux Line (both men are company officials), which earlier in the evening they had heard flying North towards Los Angeles, crashed 35 miles away. Of "worst" crashes (TIME. July 1) this was worst-3 killed by explosion, 13 incinerated...
...January 27. He will touch the west coast for the first time when he reaches San Francisco, California, on January 29. February I will see him farther down the coast at Santa Barbara, California, and on February 3 he is due to appear in Los Angeles, California. From San Diego, California, on February 5 he will journey to his last stop. Dallas, Texas, where he will make his last appearance before returning to Cam- bridge about February...