Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...before the Women's City Club, for which no tickets will be on sale. The Peabody Playhouse, at which the performances will be staged, situated at 357 Charles street, Boston. The first of the plays that is on the program is "How Con Cragan Willed Himself a Piece of Land," a short sketch which has been adapted from the book Con Cragan by Charles Lever. It has been dramatized and produced by E. Ros MacAfee. The scenery is by Anna anzky...
...Arctic travels. In 1908-09 he was Commander Peary's assistant on his successful trip to the North Pole. During the following three years he cruised along the Labrador coast especially for an ethnological study of the Eskimos and Indians living there. He was in command of the Crocker Land expedition to the Polar Regions which took place from 1913-17. In all his travels he has covered 10,000 miles with dog team in company with Polar Eskimos. Mr. MacMillan will also be in command of the Bowdoin-Baffin Land Expedition which will take place next year...
...prize of $100,000 is offered by the Aero Club of France for the development of the "helicopter" type of machine which will be able to land and take off vertically, according to a recent announcement by the Aero Club of America. The prize is put up by Monsieur Michelin, long an ardent supporter of aviation...
This type of machine would be independent of horizontal flying speed to create pressure under its wings and would be able to land and to start from the roofs of buildings in the heart of a city. This implies the necessity of a motor strong enough to swing a propellor which would lift the machine by sheer strength without the help of the wings. It is in fact the application of the principle laid down by Orville Wright that a kitchen table could fly with sufficient engine power...
Some of the difficulties in the way of developing the machine may be imagined by the conditions of the contest, which require that the airplane shall take the air vertically, have a range of speed up to 134 miles an hour, and land vertically within a radius of five metres...