Word: montes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made refueling almost impossible. . . . Over the Allegheny Mountains we got the customary storms. We would start to fly west and get a storm signal. We would then start back for New York and get storm signals. It seemed as though storm signals were all around us." At Miles City, Mont., their refueling plane passed them gas in milk cans. Over mountains forest fire smoke troubled them. In any case, 7,200 or 10.000 miles, the Sun God covered more distance non-stop than any other humans have ever done.* Chief significance: repeated refuelings in varied weather...
...magnificent bust-up near Montélimar in southern France last autumn His Highness wrecked a brand new super-costly Farman,* strewed the highway with a tonneau full of fragile young ladies, escaped unscathed. Some three weeks ago, off the coast of Norway occurred Prince Ibrahim's latest, grandest bust-up. Five minutes after His Highness's famed quarter-million-dollar Diesel yacht Nazpermer ("Beautiful Lady") struck a rock, it sank (TIME, July 29). How it all happened, a Miss Margaret Woolf of Rochester, N. Y., cheerfully told Paris reporters last week. Excerpts...
Married. James Oliver Curwood Jr., 18, son of the late novelist (The Valley of Silent Men, Nomads of the North, The Country Beyond); to a Miss Helen Ford whom he met last year on The Floating University; in Livingston, Mont...
...conducting a great wild horse round-up along the Missouri River in Cascade County, Montana. Catcher Skelton is a onetime cineman who supported Cinemactor Buck Jones in pictures professionally known as "Westerns." He is also remembered by attendants at the Dempsey-Gibbons fight (TIME, July 16, 1923) in Shelby, Mont., as the man who won first prize at the accompanying rodeo. With his five helpers, he has already this season rounded up more than 350 horses, many of which will end their days at the Hanson Packing Co., Butte. Mont., horse-cannery. For the wild horse concession, Catcher Skelton...
...proposed main line runs: Los Angeles-Phoenix-El Paso-Midland (Tex.) -Fort Worth-Dallas-Atlanta. At Atlanta it contacts with a New Orleans-Mont-gomery-Atlanta line and with an Atlanta-Charlotte-Washington-Philadelphia-New York...