Word: islanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the S-4 tragedy off Provincetown in 1927 added emphasis to the S-51 tragedy off Block Island two years before, the Navy Department began doing things to make submarines safer. Last week the experiments continued...
Life is never easy, for the Scottish inhabitants of Fair Isle, that rain-drenched pin point of an island in the Shetlands, north of Scotland. Last week the dour-faced inhabitants, who make gaudy sweaters for golfers while they think about Death and the precepts of John Knox, found life almost intolerable. A mysterious disease caused thousands of sparrows to drop dead about the Fair Islanders as they sat grimly at their knitting. No local scientist could explain why the sparrows were falling...
Soon after the authority spoke, the Vought aircraft factory in Long Island City, N. Y., was roaring and rattling by day and night to produce Vought Corsair bombing planes for the Mexican federals. How many, Planebuilder Chance Vought refused to admit, on the grounds that it was "military information...
...hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained him on Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year a U. S. horse has been installed...
Bermuda will be the first stop, from the 25 to the 27 and the men will be given plenty of shore leave to see the island. Leaving, they will alive at Havana on July 2, spend the Fourth in Cuba, and depart about the 6. Charlestown is to be reached on July 8, and they will return to Boston...