Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters...
...door, descended a long ramp to what had once been the basement blacksmith shop of the stables of his father's large drygoods store. Before 1901, when the firm sold out, E. A. Ridley & Sons had done $6,000,000 worth of business a year. Down another flight of stairs to a dank subcellar aged Mr. Ridley would go. The air smelled like cool glue. Here, where once had been a well whence Mr. Ridley provided his tenements with cheap water of questionable purity, the strange, 88-year-old man had partitioned off a cheerless office. There were...
With reference to the most interesting article "Flight by Steam," p. 34 of your issue of April 24, I should like to get the address of the Besler Bros, in order to get some information on the steam-powered airplane they were able to take into...
...silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks, and a galley containing an electric stove and electric coffee urn. A crew of six could be accommodated for a four...
...being drilled, trained and watched like crack athletes at the Scuola di Navigazione Aerea (long distance school). The airmen are the pilots, navigators & crews of 24 seaplanes which spade-bearded General Italo Balbo will lead late this month to the Chicago World's Fair. The 6,280-mi. flight will be made via Iceland, Greenland and Montreal in daily hops, the longest of which is 1,560 mi. from Iceland to Labrador. Last week an advance squad of ten Italian mechanics and radiomen left Copenhagen for Reykjavik to set up an overhaul base for the armada. Three airplanes arrived...