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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes uncomfortably hot and mosquitoey in summer. But Bermudians insist that the average temperature does not vary 20° the year round, that the climate is far more equable than any place in the world. Its greatest advantage over Nassau as a U. S. resort: it is 20 hr. nearer New York. Venerable is the Crown Colony of Bermuda. It is not one island but a close group of some 300 forming a sort of fishhook about 14 mi. long. The islands were discovered in the 15th Century by one Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard who had the misfortune...
...Daughter and used to give- shapely exhibitions of swimming and diving. Nassau. Bermuda is the name of an island. Nassau is a town. Nassau's island is called New Providence. It lies 933 mi. southwest of Bermuda, less than 200 mi. from Miami, whence it is a 15-hr. trip on the S. S. Northland. From New York the S. S. Munargo takes 60 hr. U. S. tycoons flocked to Nassau too last week, for the huge terra cotta New Colonial Hotel ($16 to $44 per day) was opening its winter season. On the site of the elegant...
Quick Trip. With seven passengers and 900 lb. of mail, a Ford trimotor of National Air Transport rode a stiff tail wind from Chicago to New York one day last week, made the 20-hr. rail trip in 4 hr. 16 min. of flight. The plane was so early arriving in Cleveland (2 hr. 6 min.) the passengers were obliged to kill an hour before flying on to Newark Airport (2 hr...
Ludington averaged 135 passengers per day for the first four months and carried 266 the day before Christmas. With each ship flying 6½ hr. per day, depreciation through obsolescence is low. Costs were kept down also by using ordinary automobile fuel foi cruising, high-priced aviation gas for take-offs and landings only. President Cord's announced plan is to develop Century along the same lines as Ludington, but much farther. The first unit, scheduled to open March 9, will serve Chicago-Detroit-Toledo-Cleveland (which route Stout Air Lines recently abandoned); and Chicago-Springfield-St. Louis. Five...
...July 8, 1896. Norman de Vaux arrived in San Francisco, vaulted off his Meteor bicycle, proclaimed that he had made a 3,786-mi. trip from Manhattan in 37 days, 14 hr., 15 min. Never since, say loyal friends, has that record been broken...