Word: islanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keystone Patrician-18-passenger cabin monoplane fitted with 3 radial motors, one in nose and others on each side on bracing struts of the high fixed wing. The whole ship is fabric covered. It started from Long Island last week on a 75-day tour of the country...
Field, Los Angeles, Cal., to Roosevelt Field, Long Island, N. Y., in 18 hr., 21 min., 59 sec., beating by 37 minutes the previous record held by Pilot Arthur Goebel. "I would have made it three hours sooner with decent weather," said Pilot Hawks. Beneath his heavy fur coat, Pilot Hawks revealed a neatly pressed business suit, well shined shoes, spats...
...fortnight ago Elinor Smith flew over Long Island for 13 hr., 16 min., 45 sec. and sang songs at the moon. Thereby she beat Bobby Trout's woman's endurance record. Last week Miss Trout kept her plane over Los Angeles for 16 hr., 52 min. and became champion. She ate oranges the while...
Four days off our Atlantic Coast lies the Island of Black Magic, peopled and civilized by the decendents of Negro slaves. This book recounts the adventures of an American who went to Haiti becaused he sensed its mystery...
...HAIL FELLOW, THAR SHE BLOWS! Correspondence from our reporter covering the Staten Island Expedition, with special attention to good fellowship and all the jolly things one sees-By wireless to The New Yorker Times Company and by wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times Company, as if anybody cared.-On board the Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys...