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...American, by the British Arctic Air Route Expedition and by Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating privileges from Portugal. Imperial, of course, has practically automatic concessions in Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador. Pan American has secured exclusive operating concessions in Iceland. From Denmark it got exclusive rights to survey Greenland with a view toward ultimate operation...
...engine and parts of the same Lockheed plane. That was last year when he and Bennett Griffin first tried to beat the Post-Gatty record. They cracked up in landing when a Russian field turned out to be a bog; but first they had made a superb jump from Newfoundland to Berlin, whence they took off nearly 11 hr. ahead of Post & Gatty's schedule...
...days nearly to the minute after his take-off that word reached the U. S. of Mattern's safety in Norway. About 600 mi. out from Newfoundland he had hit stormy weather and the far more vicious hazard of ice. Throughout a night ''which seemed like a year" he fought thunderstorms, with ice on his wings nearly forcing him into the sea. He lost his course, missed England & Scotland completely, discovered himself over the coast of Norway which he was not prepared to navigate. With fuel running low, he picked out a landing spot in an island...
...know that two states of the Republic of the United States are deprived of a majority of the privileges enjoyed by the 42 others. They are the States of Newfoundland and Guatemala...
...Newfoundland, as you know, is inhabited by 2,000,000 people of Spanish origin who still speak Spanish since Cortes conquered the country from the Incas, while the Guatemalans speak Portuguese, since Don Pedro of Syracuse conquered the country in 1456. . . . As just one example of injustice, these two States are represented in the American Senate by only one Senator, whereas the others, such as New York, have...