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...Johns, Newfoundland, 36 years ago, Guglielmo Marconi heard the feeble ticks of the first transatlantic wireless. At St. Johns, 18 years ago, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown took off with the first mail to be flown across the Atlantic. Last week, 150 miles northwest of St. Johns near Botwood, in the dense woods at Hattie's Camp, 350 men were busy carving out a square mile which is to be North America's first transatlantic flying field...
...approach will be cleared at each end. All runways will have a flushing apparatus to clear away snow. Two miles away at Gander Lake, which is said to be ice-free all year, is a clearing for a seaplane base, with two channels almost wholly dredged. On the Newfoundland Railway stands a new station already labeled "Newfoundland Airport." Hotels, customs, hangars are soon to go up. Cost of the entire project...
...other will spend the summer as a seaman on the mission schooner "George B. Cluett," which carries the volunteer workers from Portland to Labrador and then spends the rest of the summer distributing the supplies for the winter to the various stations on the coast from Saint Anthony, Newfoundland, the mission base...
...integral part of the history of English colonial expansion. Concluding that U.S. history cannot be deeply understood unless England's experiences with all her colonies are taken into account. Professor Andrews studies the colonies that remained loyal as well as those that rebelled, with Bermuda, Newfoundland, the Barbadoes receiving almost as much attention as the ones that eventually became the original 13 States. If some U. S. heroes seem to shrink in stature as a result, and some familiar English enemies to disappear entirely, the net gain is a dense, panoramic picture of a century of struggle, revealing...
From Floyd Bennett he buzzed up to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland in less than seven hours, was forced to stay there 24 hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...