Word: islanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comrade Litvinov in the Kremlin came intelligence, last week, that a ship had just cleared from New York, bearing to the Chinese Government the second consignment of a $1,000,000 order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson's note, pondered its powerful conclusion...
...should ask you What is the heart Of Island Yamato- It is the mountain cherry-blossom Which exhales its perfume in the morning...
...over icy wildernesses. Their greatest exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting uncharted lines of magnetic force, to Spitsbergen (TIME, April 30, 1928). Last year Eielson flew Sir Hubert from Deception Island over a section of Antarctica (TIME, Dec. 31). This winter he was to fly over the South Pole, but preferred to organize Alaska Airways Corp. for The Aviation Corp.* Last month Eielson flew to the rescue of two icebound fur ships. One trip was made successfully (TIME...
...keep at least 7,000 ft. above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio of 8 to 1. From a half mile height it can glide four miles in still...
...Parker Dresser Cramer, who twice vainly tried to fly from Illinois over Canada, Greenland and Iceland to Europe (TIME, July 15) was with Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...