Word: outposters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a native, had just been recaptured, but nothing was said about it. In the next room she waited her punishment while he and Riquem argued abstractions. Next morning, on the Governor's orders, Riquem arrested him. Torpido, right handy man to the Governor, followed Jeronimo to the outpost where he was imprisoned. Torpido thought it would be a good idea to have him killed. But the Governor, who normally would have agreed with Torpido, had changed his mind. Virginia, daughter of the woman who had once hardened his heart by betraying him, came searching for the secret...
...progress brought them to Gilgit, 150 miles northwest of Srinagar. Leader Haardt considered the higher mountains before him, decided the two cars never would get over them. On 200 yaks and ponies the party went on, leaving the cars in Gilgit-first wheeled vehicles ever to reach that mountain outpost. Across the Himalayas, at Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, almost in mid-Asia, the Haardt party was to be met by seven other cars which had left Peiping when the first party left Beirut. The party from Peiping, too, had encountered difficulties. Lieutenant Commander Victor Point was in charge. In the Gobi...
...Giro Over Mexico. Down upon a terrace of the famed Chichen-Itza ruins in Yucatan, where the Carnegie Foundation has an outpost, plumped an autogiro piloted by Capt. Lewis A. ("Lon") Yancey. In less than two hours he had windmilled over the mountains from Merida, a journey which takes most of a day by narrow-gauge rail and wagon. Having flown the first 'giro to Cuba and thence to Mexico, Pilot Yancey visited Mexico City before heading for the U. S. Pacific Coast...
...Lindbergh opportunity to practice radio communication with the Pan-American Airways base near New York. West of Ottawa the pair had their first look at the wilderness over which they must fly on most of their course. Followed by flying newshawks, they spent a night at Moose Factory, remote outpost at the lower tip of Hudson's Bay; flew on to Churchill, Canada's booming northern grain port; thence set out for Baker Lake and Aklavik, a route from which many a seasoned airman of the North had tried to dissuade them. From Aklavik their course lies west...
...Army's General Staff, the Navy's General Board have from time to time intimated that in the event of a war with Japan the U. S. would not attempt to defend the Philippines or the long line of communications thereto, but would withdraw to Hawaii as a defensive outpost in the Pacific...