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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only two of the sunken crew escaped, her commander, Lieutenant R. J. Gardner, and Telegraphist Sydney Cleburne, who happened to be in the conning tower. Three men were lost from the L-12, which was sucked down 40 feet after the collision but bobbed up again and made port without assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Called from Cricket | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...inventory of the estate of the late great Samuel Rea of Bryn Mawr, Pa., onetime president of Pennsylvania R. R. and many another line, was filed last week, valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...pounders, winners of a preliminary regatta at Marlow and during the U. S. rowing season losers of only one race. Eliminating the Westminster Bank crew in the first heat, Columbia stroked to a one-length victory in the second over the Kingston Rowing Club boat, coached by R. C. Sheriff, young insurance-broker author of Journey's End, current War play. Columbia was eliminated in a windy third heat by the heavier crew of Trinity College, Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Henley | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Black's Grandstand. To watch the 1,200-mi. air race around England for the King's Cup last week, air-touring Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore chartered a huge Imperial Airways plane as his "flying grandstand." Winner of the race was R. L. Atcherley, flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, with a Gloster-Grebe military fighter. A competitor was Lady Mary Bailey, trans-African adventuress (TIME, March 26, 1928, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Angeles, Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison in a Cessna (TIME, July 8) had their motor fail, landed with a crash after 42 hr. 5 min. in the air. Another Los Angeles plane, the Buhl Angeleno, last week started up for the endurance record. Flyers were Loren W. Mendell, R. B. Reinhart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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