Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bought new for some $200,000 by .Richard Archbold, research associate of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, the 27,500-lb. plane was flown from San Diego to New York as a test hop for an expedition Explorer Archbold plans to New Guinea this year. With Pilot Russell Rogers, Explorer Archbold and four others aboard, the big ship covered the 2,600-miles overnight in 17 hr. 3½-min. So perfect was the weather that the Sperry gyro-pilot handled the controls most...
...license, plans to fly his ship to Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, to see if the two Wasp motors can take it off the water at that 7,740-ft. altitude. Heretofore no plane has ever taken off from water higher than 6,225-ft. Lake Tahoe in California. In New Guinea, where rich, 30-year-old Explorer Archbold plans to fly via Pan American's bases across the Pacific, he hopes to be able to land on and take off from a lake 11,000 ft. high. Last year in New Guinea a smaller plane upset in a squall...
Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1756, Captain Barde reached Birdsboro via the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, England, and war with the Spaniards at Pensacola, Fla. where he wooed and won the 14-year-old daughter of his landlady with a ring chopped from a gold guinea. He did so well renting Birdsboro that he bought it in 1796. Plant Manager Matthew Brooke married his daughter and Brooke-Barde descendants have owned and operated Birdsboro ever since. Chairman now of the Birdsboro board, which contains six Brookes, is tall, 70-year-old Robert Edward Brooke, grandson of Matthew. President since...
...Ephraim di Kahble, inserted an advertisement under his name in the Daily Princetonian offering a free ride in a Lincoln phaeton to the Yale game in New Haven which drew 50 replies, were finally exposed when Ephraim di Kahble advertised in the New York Times for an orange-&-black guinea...
...weighs about 50 lb. A canvas deck keeps out spray, and two rubber notation tanks prevent sinking in case of capsizing. Low-slung, they are hard to tip over. Experts have made the 1,400 miles around the coast of England, the 17,000 miles from England to New Guinea, the 1,500 miles from Manhattan to Chicago. German, British and U. S. submarines are sometimes outfitted with them. As in skiing, German is the language of the sport...