Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy. To hold this empire the navy maintains for its fighting fleets large stations at Guantanamo Bay (leased from Cuba under a treaty), at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, at Cavite near Manila, small ones at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, at Guam, Panama, Samoa and Olongapo. Policing the Caribbean is the Special Service Squadron under Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell. On its beat along the China coast moves the Asiatic fleet of two cruisers, 19 destroyers, auxiliary vessels, gunboats on the Yangtze River...
...moved west after the Revolution. She married one Daniel Brown, set up house with him in Amesville, Ohio, where he ran a general store. There four of her eight children were born. Then "Dan'l got the Western fever," and they moved to Iowa, to a farm near Keokuk...
...California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...
Eielson is vice president and general manager of Alaskan Airways. Inc., subsidiary of the powerful and influential Aviation Corp. He was on the second flight of rescue to an ice-beleaguered fur trading ship when he dropped from sight somewhere near Cape North, Siberia. He and Borland had food for a month. Last week that time elapsed. At Teller, Alaska, has been established a secondary base for the impatient rescuers...
...Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long the flyers' 1,400 gallons of gas, 50 gallons of oil, would keep them up, figured on 50 hours. At last, many hours behind schedule, the plane crashed near Maracuja, Rio do Norte, Brazil. Both flyers were slightly injured, the plane wrecked...