Word: horta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calvert School today has some 300 day pupils. Its unique service goes to 3,000 shut-in or isolated children in all of the 48 states and such odd spots as Poona, Ruanda-Urundi, Juneau, Waialua, Horta, Haiti. It is constantly expanding: last week Calvert was taking on U.S. children who will study as a group in Nicaragua's torrid Managua...
Sixteen of the 39 persons aboard the big plane, including Jane Froman, American stago, screen and radio singing star, were being treated for injuries. The Clipper brought 26 passengers from New York and one from Horta, in addition to its crow...
...feature of Export's proposed full-scale operation: a non-stop run to Lisbon in 20½ hours without stop at Horta where Pan Am clippers now run into frequent delays because of rough water. Pan Am's contention that present equipment did not justify such a long haul was waved aside by Examiner Leasure. One of his points: Pan Am itself will run non-stop New York-Lisbon service when it gets delivery on six new modified Boeing clippers. His recommendation on other Pan Am objections...
...expedition started last August 28, as the eight members of the expedition and four others sailed aboard the Capitana, 147 foot ketch named after Columbus's ship on his third voyage of discovery. Horta in the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal were the first ports of call. In Lisbon the party met the second ship of the expedition, the Mary Otis, a 45 foot ketch and sailed on to Cadiz and Madeira...