Word: oaklands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bennet Griffin, flying the Oklahoma, rose from the ground at Oakland, Calif., for the first takeoff, and the race was on. At intervals behind him rose John W. Frost flying the Golden Eagle; Capt. W. P. Erwin flying the Dallas Spirit; J. Auggy Pedlar flying the Miss Doran (carrying with him Miss Mildred Doran, school teacher from Flint, Mich.); Goebel; and Jensen. Pabco Flyer and El Encanto crashed at the start. Soon Erwin returned with an unlucky windhole in his fuselage. Soon Griffin returned, his engine failing. Out over the blue Pacific flew Goebel, Jensen; Frost, Pedlar; and their navigators...
...Hava Supai Canyon, Arizona, Archaeologist Samuel Hubbard, of the Oakland (Calif.) Museum, financed by Edward L. Doheny, oilman, picked and shoveled the banks of the Colorado River seeking traces of an "apeman" with nine feet of vertebrae, including tail; twelve-legged dragons; animals answering Biblical descriptions. Digger Hubbard is unique in his profession. He hopes to prove Evolution wrong, the Bible right, about man's origin...
Some 2,000 leaders among U. S. women workers gathered last week at Oakland, Calif. They were delegates to the annual convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, an organization with a membership of 60,000 and a surplus of $17,000. With Miss Lena Madesin Phillips presiding they discussed various topics of economic feminism...
...might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot, and Emory Bronte, navigator, who entered dense fog with their Travelair monoplane, City of Oakland, soon after leaving Oakland, Calif., for Honolulu in mid-Pacific. "Foggy as hell," snapped Flyer Smith's first signals. Then he seemed to get used to it and flashed: "Going fine ... we will run out of it soon." Again, he said: "Go-ing strong. . . . Radio beacon working great...
Between Sept. 16?30: San Francisco-Oakland, Sacramento, Reno, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tuscon, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Tulsa...