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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chunky, jovial, rich Juan de la Cierva, 33, inventor of the autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the time, stripped off his coat and near the Swedenborgian Church which Mr. Pitcairn and his two brothers are building according to their late father's bequest, made the first autogiro flight...
Died. Marvel Crosson. 25, of San Diego. Cal., aviatrix, woman's altitude record holder (23,996 ft.); near Wellton, Ariz.. when she, an entrant in the Women's Air Derby (see pp. 18 & 50) jumped from her dead-motored airplane...
Straws show which way the wind blows. But when a strawstack is an indicator it tells tales of a wind that is blowing near hurricane strength. Last week 37 banks in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana,?37 banks with over $350.000,000 of assets?were the strawstack at which the Northwest cocked an admiring eye. For the 3 7 banks were united in a great bank chain, headed by the First National banks of St. Paul and Minneapolis...
Swiss. Two Swiss flyers, Oscar Kaesar, 22, and Kurt Luescher, 21, neither of them a navigator, flew from Lisbon, Portugal, toward New York last fortnight. A German steamer saw them near the Azores. No one has seen them since. Total number of flyers lost trying to fly the Atlantic westward...
...Because storms were ahead of them, most of the 60 passengers revised their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining leg of her globe-trot, to Lakehurst, N. J., seemed commonplace after man's first flight across the whole vast, empty Pacific Ocean...