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Performance. The Los Angeles came from Germany, where she was built (Zeppelin ZR-3), in 80 hours, a non-stop flight of 5,060 miles (TIME, Oct. 20, Oct. 27, 1924). Her top speed is 70 m. p. h. She has visited Bermuda, Porto Rico, flown many training flights at sea; voyaged 50,370 nautical miles since her arrival in 1924. Her usual cruising crew is about 45. She will carry 100 passengers who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside...
...TIME, Oct. 3, 1927, under the heading of "Voices" it is read: "Bleary night crowds in Porto Rico...
...people purred contentedly at being thus addressed. Scarred thugs in saloons; bleary night crowds in Porto Rico; hawk-eyed Indians in New Mexican hovels; gentlewomen in staid mansions in Buffalo, N. Y.?all leaned forward eagerly...
...closing of the last U. S. Citizens' Military Training Camp, the War Department reported last week that in 1927 a record number of persons, 39,676, had enrolled in these camps. The number of camps was 53, scattered through 33 states with one camp in San Juan, Porto Rico. Never before had so many enrolled, never before had so few fallen sick or died. Three died; two from accidents, one from a disease...
...Brunswick, Ga., came Rev. W. K. C. Redfern, Baptist minister and dean of Benedict's College, Negro institution, at Columbia, S. C. He is Paul Redfern's father, and together they mapped the course down the Caribbean Sea to Porto Rico, over the Windward Islands to British Guiana in South America, south to Brazil, across Brazil to Rio. He helped 108-lb. Paul load into the Port of Brunswick sandwiches, food, coffee, a rifle and cartridges, fishing tackle, mosquito nets, quinine, light boots, knives, signal flares, rubber life raft. These were to save his life if he landed...