Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Panama. Not until this year did Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop reveal the extent and significance of the fabulous treasures which he and other Harvard archeologists have uncovered In three years of unpublicized digging in the Province of Coclé, 90 mi. from the Canal Zone. The region was inhabited half a millennium ago by a rich and industrious people, culturally apart from the Incas to the south, from the Mayas and Aztecs to the north. Christopher Columbus encountered them on his fourth and last voyage (1502), went home to tell of their massive gold breast ornaments. Before long Panama...
...service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot, took off from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that they would attempt the trip again. Unknown to history, even in legend the Queen of Sheba emerges only...
...Lieut. Otto Wienecke, a seasoned Army pilot who had flown less than 24 hr. in the last 18 months, was ramming a planeload of mail from, Newark, N. J. through a snowstorm, toward Cleveland. About 20 mi. short of his goal, he groped for a landing. His plane crashed on John Hess's farm near Burton, Ohio. Farmer Hess ran to the wreck, shook the pilot's shoulder. Lieut. Wienecke did not budge. His neck was broken...
...passenger American Airways plane, started back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back to St. Louis. He felt his plane settling groggily, looked...
Since no one can now read the future of private U. S. airmail operations, Mr. Varney has turned his attention one Republic south. One night last week a Lockheed Orion of his new Lineas Aereas Occidentals roared into Los Angeles, completing its first 1,700-mi. trip from Mexico City in 10 hr. Lineas Aereas Occidentales (Western Air Lines) will operate three planes a week over the route with five Orions used on Varney Speed Lines (Los Angeles-San Francisco...