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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MCMILLAN PALMIERI Newark, N. J...
Contractees were the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle; Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Inc. of Garden City, L. I.; Douglas Aircraft Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif.: Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America, of Hassbrouck Heights, N. J.; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. of Baltimore...
Born in Burlington, N. J., Bishop-Coadjutor Taitt went to the University of Pennsylvania, attended Philadelphia's Protestant Episcopal Divinity School while he was still a university student. At the divinity school he was graduated as an honor man. Nine years ago the University of Pennsylvania gave him an honorary LL.D...
...world's four worst heavier-than-air accidents: December 1924, Imperial Airways plane, at Croydon, eight killed; January 1929, U. S. Army plane at Royalton, Pa., seven killed; December 1928, at Rio de Janiero, 14 killed; March 1929, Colonial Airways, sightseeing plane, at Newark, N. J., 14 killed...
...feet can run far. Last week one John Salo, plodding Passaic, N. J., policeman, reached Los Angeles, where he had pegged from Manhattan. His running had not been in vain, for he was winner of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle's transcontinental bunion derby. In a burst of finishing speed, Runner Salo galloped 26 miles around Wrigley Field, while ten thousand Californians cheered, hooted, whistled. His cross-country time: 526 hr., 57 min., 30 sec. His winning purse...