Word: oakland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with Augustus Thomas, famed playwright. *Who convene this week at Oakland, Calif...
They left the municipal airport at Oakland, Calif., early in the morning with favorable weather. In the afternoon they hungered, but were unable to find their chicken sandwiches, soup and coffee (which some cautious helpmate had wrapped in a tarpaulin and tucked under the plane's plotting board). When their radio beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused...
Smith & Carter. Two hours after the Army plane had left Oakland, two civilians-Pilot Ernest L. Smith and Navigator Charles H. Carter-set out to race it to Hawaii in a little Travelair plane. An unusual accident, the breaking of the navigator's windshield, caused the Travelair to return to Oakland in ten minute...
...Miss Whitney was arrested in Oakland after having defied civic authorities in making a speech in behalf of one John McHugh, I. W. W. member. At her trial, Miss Whitney admitted having joined the Communist party. True, she had never been accused of hurling bombs, preaching revolutions or even damaging machinery (sabotage), but California had, still has, a criminal syndicalism act by which membership alone in certain proscribed organizations is in itself considered worthy of a jail sentence...
...York City $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 is invested in apartment hotels; in Chicago, Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Louisville, New Orleans, Atlanta virtually as much in proportion to total property valuations...