Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, while Fliers von Huenefeld, Koehl and Fitzmaurice triumphed in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. etc., it was reported that the Bremen, still stranded at Greenly Island, might not be able to fly away if it were not fetched before spring thaws softened the ground. To spare the heroes a break in their tour, the War Department last week announced an expedition to Greenly Island in two amphibian planes commanded by Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Corps. A pilot of the Junkers Corporation was taken along, to be dropped on Greenly Island by parachute...
Learned with pleasure that, after their approval, Ellis Laurimore Phillips, president of the Long Island Lighting Co. and the Empire Power Corp. in Manhattan, had provided a donation of $500,000 toward the building of the Temple. Mr. Phillips laid two comparatively easy conditions upon the acceptance of his gift: that the Temple Trustees secure $250,000 more by July i; that they secure $750,000 more by Dec. 1. This done, the building fund will be complete...
...Haven, Conn., May 14.--Yale will not be entered as an opponent of the Harvard Flying Club in the intercollegiate airplane races to be held at Mitchell Field, Long Island, in June, as a result of a decision recently given out by President James Rowland Angell. According to the announcement, no undergraduate will be allowed to participate in any airplane races, for an indefinite period of time...
...homes (at Hastings-on-Hudson, Palm Beach; Patricia Island, Quebec; Manhattan) are full of flowers, sofas and pictures of two people. One of these is his wife, beautiful Billie Burke. The other is his daughter Patricia who is idolized by her father...
Last week, as he took his ease in a country manor, placid Ziggy did not reflect that almost every dead U. S. producer of gay, tinkling dramatics has died without funds. Instead, he reflected that an airplane, driven by Bernt Balchen, had just made a record driving from Staten Island to Detroit; that the airplane was the very one in which the late Floyd Bennett had tried to reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister...