Word: oakland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Incentive. Col. W. E. Easterwood Jr., of Dallas, Tex., renewed his 1927 offer of $25,000 for the first flight from Hongkong, China to Dallas last week. He hoped that James Drummond Dole, Hawaiian pineapple sponsor of the Oakland, Cal. to Honolulu race in 1927, would add another $25,000 for the race. It involves stops at Tokyo, Honolulu and on the Pacific Coast...
Hoppers. Unquenched by high percentage of failures, two flyers last week winner in the Oakland-Honolulu flight of 1927 (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927), in a specially built plane will attempt to fly from Paris to New York solo. Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, Maine-to-Spain non-stopper (TIME, July 22), has in mind a west-east crossing with Emile H. Burgin...
Arthur Ingraham Jr., of Oakland, Rhode Island...
...Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco), one in Colorado (Denver), eight in Illinois (all in Chicago), one in Maryland (Baltimore's Bureau of Contraceptive Advice, only one outside of New York using an unmasked name), one each in Detroit, Minneapolis and Newark, ten in New York, one in Cleveland. The conferees pointed with...
Sued for Divorce. John Henry Mears, globe-circler whose record (23 days, 15 hr., 21 min., established in 1928) was only surpassed by the Graf Zeppelin's flight; by Mrs. Marian Mears at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: non-support...