Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norge's Spitzbergen to Teller flight of 2,700 mi. is the longest successful nonstop flight for nonrigid dirigibles. The French Dixmade had covered over 5,000 mi. and weathered an African hurricane, when she was lost with all hands in the Mediterranean...
Miraculous as this may seem to us and dismaying to the Anti-Nicotine League, your Editor is not yet done. Nay, far from it. For as she sails high above the sparkling Mediterranean, he must needs bring despair to peace advocates and consternation to those whose business is armaments, by a transformation no less astonishing. This innocent airship, which left the Ciampino Airdrome with all its young ideals unbesmirched, and is dragged over the Appian Way where Emperors marched in triumph, as a vicious "BLUNT CIGAR," he fiendishly converts into nothing less than a "LONG SILVER BULLET...
What did it mean? The correspondents of all the great news agencies at Rome cabled that "a trustworthy source" had supplied them with tidings of a secret pact between Greece and Italy, said to envision the ousting of Turkey from her Aegean and Mediterranean possessions between Constantinople and the port of Adalia (east of Rhodes...
...Mediterranean, and our destiny, without patterning after anyone, has been and always will...
Emperors used to march the Appian Way in triumph. The Norge soared majestically above it up to the Eternal City and set off to fly, in 24 hours, a distance that used to take Caesar's legions two months of forced marches. She headed out over the Mediterranean for Corsica's upper tip. Colonel Nobile christened her radio with a message to Premier Mussolini ? steaming to visit Italian possessions in Africa aboard the battleship Cavour ? that all was well...