Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hurrying last week to visit Commander Byrd was Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who will be 41 just six days after Commander Byrd. He stopped at Rio de Janeiro last week. As he left there for Buenos Aires and Graham Land south of Cape Horn, his supply and base ship William Scorseby sailed from Simonstown, South Africa. Waiting for him since last year at Deception Island is the airplane which he and Carl Ben Eielson flew over Graham Land (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928). Pilot Eielson now is in Alaska developing an aviation line for the Aviation Corp. With Sir Hubert...
...Douglas may, however, be too tardy. Quietly the Norwegians have sent ships to forestall him. If they can plant their Norwegian flag on hitherto unclaimed coastal land they may avoid paying Australia or Great Britain taxes...
...overproduction. Drilling in California is expected to bring in new supplies, and constitutionality of the State Conservation Law (TIME, Oct. 14) is being questioned. Government reports last week indicated that while 3,000,000 acres are in production, there are 22,000,000 acres of unproved oil land. There is no satisfactory protection against these fields being opened and operated. In storage is enough oil to furnish the U. S. demands even if all production were entirely shut down for nine months...
...pays $13.50 for the support of athletics (and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land, but flew away when the players came within sight. Wallace A. Wade, University athletic director and football coach, swore out and had served on Pilot Howe a warrant charging him with "recklessly driving a motor vehicle" and scaring his football squads...
...great red airplane landed last week in northwestern Manchuria near the Siberian border, where Chinese and Russians have been fighting off and on for three months (TIME, July 22 et seq.). Two grimy men clambered out of the machine, then scrambled for a barricade, for threatening natives were running at them. The aviators gestured placatingly. They tried to pantomime that they were Frenchmen. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte, that they had flown from Paris in an attempt to make a non-stop record over Europe and Asia, and that the exhaustion of their gasoline and oil had forced them...