Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator from Connecticut, Hiram Bingham of New Haven, who styles himself "explorer"* sooner than "politician" and who is more professor* than publicist, returned to the U. S. some weeks ago from an extended tour of the Orient. On his way back from war-ridden Tientsin, he visited his birthplace, Honolulu...
Married. Lieutenant William V. Davis, U. S. N., winner with Arthur C. Goebel of the Dole airplane race from San Francisco to Honolulu; to Miss Margaret Carey; at Pensacola...
...Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu (1,400 miles over the sea), had not arrived at Midway Islands. Neither Schlee nor Brock is a navigator. Aviation experts all over the world regarded the jump as certain suicide. Scores of protest-cables awaited the flyers in Tokyo. Said Mr. Brock: "We quit because the entire world is fighting us." There...
Latterly, after the World War, when he had established himself as professor of public health administration at Columbia University and as associate editor of the Nation's Health and of the Survey, he made a study of child growth, in localities as scattered as Manhattan, Toronto and Honolulu. He found that under favorable conditions children grew without relation to the seasons of the year; he decided that children who grew lanky & gawky in the spring, grew lanky & gawky because they had fevers...
From San Francisco, Radio Corporation of America sent a duplicate picture by radiogram to Honolulu. At Honolulu a print was made and sent by express steamer to Osaka (Japan), Batavia (Java), Wellington, (New Zealand), Sydney and Melbourne (Australia). From Melbourne prints of the print of the San Francisco-Honolulu photoradiogram were to be mailed by train...