Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass flying formations with the wings of the planes 16 ft. apart. The dreary weather permitted only a stately parade of the squadrons down the hazy Hudson. Except for a few power dives and dog fights over Floyd Bennett Field, the only aerobatics of the afternoon took place inland over New Jersey. A patrol of pursuit planes dove at the World-Telegram-Eastern Air Transport's "flying press box," shooed it further off the course...
Professor Wegener established his base station on the west coast of Greenland, at Kamarujuk. A central station he set up 250 mi. inland, on the Greenland icecap, slowly gestating mother of icebergs. Last September two men were at the central station. They expected to remain alone all winter. Professor Wegener, Dr. Fritz Loewe and an Eskimo named Rasmus left the west camp with supplies...
...stand a good squeeze. He is fined and then allowed to begin again. "This system, carried on from Cape Delgado to Delagoa Bay, completely neutralizes all the efforts of our citizens. On the West Coast the squadron kept down slaving till the influences of civilization and Christianity spread inland. Twenty missions have been established and 20 dialects have been reduced to writing. Over 12,000 communicants sit down in various churches. And lawful commerce has increased from ?20,000 to between ?2,000,000 and ?3,000,000." In the Belgian Congo Dr. Arthur Torranee, Los Angeles wanderer...
...White Empresses of the Pacific" is Empress of Japan. Greatest on the St. Lawrence-Europe route will soon be Empress of Britain, launched last summer. The ocean-going going and coastal fleet of C. P. R. numbers 57 vessels with a gross tonnage of 468,717. Its inland lake and river fleet has 20 ships...
...heroic Water Front Fighters the mobilized men will be used to speed up transport on Russia's inland waterways, now ice-free for the short, hectic summer season (May through August). According to the Commissariat of Labor 71,000,000 tons more freight must be carried by the rivers this year than last, an increase...