Word: newfoundlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canine generations which will then be on exhibition. Specimen dogs of the 79 recognized breeds will be mounted, put side by side with their skeletons for comparison. Leon Whitney, authority on genetics, is in charge of the collection and already has skulls of the black and tan, Newfoundland, Irish Wolfhound, and entire skeletons and skins of the Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, bloodhound. Latest arrival was Togo, a husky serum-courier of Nome who, doddering with age, was sent to New Haven to be stuffed for posterity...
Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...
...trans-Atlantic flyer, to be president of Crescent Aircraft Corp., organized last year to manufacture commercial airplanes. They paid $4 for Crescent stock, tried to sell it for $12 to $16 a share with the intimation that Crescent planes had been ordered for passenger service between New York and Newfoundland, Bermuda and London. Clarence Chamberlin, a gull for no long time,* was vexed. He asked and received a temporary injunction against Hadley & Co. selling Crescent stock. Chamberlin also had newspapers print his public warning against buying Crescent stocks. This scandal, however, did not create official investigation. Airvia-Coastal. The postal...
Other famed ocean rescues: Harry G. Hawker and Commander Mackenzie- Grieve, picked up between Newfoundland and Scotland, May, 1919; Commander John Rodgers and crew, near the Hawaiian Islands, September, 1925 (see map, p. 12); Ruth Elder and George Haldeman, near the Azores, October, 1927; Commander Francesco de Pinedo and crew, between Newfoundland and the Azores...
...months later Alcock was killed alighting at Rouen. Theirs was the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Lieut.-Commander Alber C. Read, U. S. Navy, and his companions stopped at the Azores on their Newfoundland-Portugal flight...