Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flying with a mechanic and a passenger between Hartford and Willimantic, Conn, last week, Lieutenant Carl Dixon, Connecticut National Guard pilot, discovered a wheel loose and a strut broken on his landing gear. To land meant wreckage. What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely...
When, last month, Aviators James Kelly and R. L. Robbins remained aloft over Fort Worth, Tex., for 172 hrs. 32 mins. 1 sec., great was public interest. No motored vehicle, land, sea or air, had ever before run so long without stopping. Last week, however, two Roosevelt stock sedans drove ground and round the Indianapolis motor speedway without stopping, reached, then far passed the airplane record. One stopped after 231 hrs. and 41 min. The other passed the 300 hour mark, kept going. Drivers (who worked in shifts) included Aviators Kelly and Robbins, who thus helped to break on land...
World population now is about two billion. At the present rate of increase it should double in between no and 150 years. There is, the scientists figured, enough arable land on earth to supply food for an eventual ten or eleven billion persons. The U. S. share of those hypothetical numbers is eight hundred millions, about seven times the present U. S. census. The U. S. now has an average of 40 people to the square mile, Australia two, England 700. If all the earth were as thickly inhabited as is England, world population would be 37 billions...
...digging in Rhodesia is Lidio Cipriani, Professor of Ethnology at the University of Florence. Important has been his discovery of flint instruments, for they tend to prove that Rhodesia was a land of the living in prehistoric as well as medieval times. Last week the Professor reported a particularly exciting discovery? two "Bushman paintings" on rock, one on top of the other. Beneath was a well-dressed Arab. Above was a Bushman ferociously warring with Bantus. It was the first example of superimposed art to be found in Rhodesia. It promised under analysis to help historians to learn what races...
...ancient, gifted family of Sackville existed in Elizabethan times, later played host to such cultured notables as Poets Pope and Dryden. Best known of living members is Lady-Novelist the Hon. V. Sackville-West (Seducers in Ecuador, The Land.) The family figures importantly in Novelist Virginia Woolf s Orlando...