Word: newfoundlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saint (Scribner's, $1), Dr. Grenfell last month published the address he made when inducted in 1929 as Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, Scotland. In it he happily notes: "Two years ago we opened a large, modern, fireproof hospital, built of reinforced concrete and steel" at St. Anthony, Newfoundland. The other four hospitals he conducts in Labrador and Newfoundland are, like the one at Battle Harbor, built of wood...
...other words: Newfoundland First! Australia First! New Zealand First! South Africa First! Great Britain First! India First! The Irish Free State First...
Trans-Atlantic. Capt. J. Errol Boyd (Canadian) and Lieut. Harry Connor, retired U. S. Navy flyer who with Roger Quincy Williams flew the old Bellanca-built Columbia non-stop from Long Island to Bermuda and back (TIME, July 7), last week flew the Columbia from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Tresco, one of the Scilly islands, 25 mi. off Cornwall, England. Theirs was the fifth heavier-than-air crossing this year, the 26th in history. They spent the night in that Arthurian Land of Lyonnesse, then continued to Croyden, their real destination. First to greet them there was Charles A. Levine...
...Hearst organization made what many recognized as a logical move: went into the paper business in Canada itself by buying a substantial stock interest (not exceeding 20%) in Canada Power & Paper Corp. Immediately it began negotiations for the acquisition of waterpower rights and timber limits for a mill in Newfoundland. Negotiations were carried on by Hearst through a subsidiary, Dominion Newsprint Co., Ltd. In its turn, Canada Power & Paper acquired a stock interest in that company. There was no cash transaction. The Hearst-Canadian Power deal was the second of recent months to shake the battlements of International Paper...
...Flight. The unprecedented precautions taken by Coste & Bellonte brought their reward. Although heavy fog beset the Question Mark along the French coast and also off Newfoundland, weather conditions on the whole were more advantageous for flight than any time earlier in the year, or since their arrival in the U. S. By a somewhat circuitous route most of the bad spots were avoided until near Newfoundland when fog forced the flyers to climb to 3,000 ft. Their closest call Capt. Coste described in the New York Times. Hugging the coast of Nova Scotia so as not to lose sight...