Word: nc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Engaged. Capt. John Henry Towers, pioneer aeronaut (commander of the Navy's NC-4, first successful trans-Atlantic flight, 1919), assistant director of U. S. Naval aviation during the War; to Mile Anne Pierre de Grandmont, of Paris. Capt. Tower's first wife (divorced 1923) was Miss Lily Carstairs of Philadelphia, now Mrs. Martin B. Saportas of Manhattan...
...Island of Fayal in the Azores, can hardly be called a port, although it has a thriving farming and fishing population. Steamships send in loads of travelers by lighter, but ships of the air have found it a port of great value. Since May 1919, when the NC-4, U. S. flying boat, boomed proudly in from the first crossing of the Atlantic, many flyers have used it as a real or potential haven. The German ZR-3, now the Los Angeles, flew over it. The Graf Zeppelin flew over it. It forms an ideal hopping-off point for North...
Harvard team A 3, Newton Center 0. A.W. Patterson '32 defeated R.C. Bray (NC) 16-17, 15-3, 12-15, 15-12, 15-7; C.D.G. Breckinridge '31 defeated Holt (NC) 15-8, 15-9, 17-16; Ingraham defeated Stuart (NC...