Word: fayal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Paris to Manhattan by air is a feat that has stimulated and perturbed Frenchmen since the days of lost Heroes Nungesser and Coli. Last week Lieut. Paulin Paris, Mechanician Marat, Radioman Cadou set out to accomplish it in a hydroplane. They reached the island of Fayal in the Azores safely. Then they refuelled, prepared to hop to Bermuda, to Manhattan...
...flying Fascist, was forced last week to land on the Atlantic near the Azores Islands on the next-to-last leg of his 26,000-mile, four-continent flight. Premier Mussolini stayed up all night until he heard that Flyer de Pinedo's plane had been towed safely to Fayal, Azores. Soon Commander de Pinedo expects to hop to Rome and receive a long-delayed welcome...
Jutting out in the Atlantic about a third of the way from Lisbon to Philadelphia, are the Azores Islands. Chief of them is Fayal, where the little stone houses of Horta-toy houses of pure pink, blue, yellow and white-rim the smooth-curved harbor. . . . One day last week the volcanic crust of the earth subsided under Fayal. Some 1,500 of the little stone houses of Horta trembled, crumbled, fell down. A tidal wave washed in to paw their ruins...