Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Months of preparation had preceded their disappearance. Publisher Hearst had taken every known precaution for Old Glory: A complete radio set, rubber raft, flares, much food for the flyers, even little metal mouthpieces which distill a cup of water from the breath every 24 hours. The destination of the plane was Rome, 4,100 miles away (115 miles beyond Clarence Chamberlin's endurance record into Germany.) The Pope in his Vatican nodded, pleased, when the wires told how Father Mullen, Old Orchard priest, had blessed the plane and tits mission just before the takeoff...
...Raft & Parachute. In the course of a 3,000-foot parachute drop Marine Corps Corporal Richard L. Huffman inflated a collapsible rubber raft. Near the water, he dropped the raft, dived from the parachute, recovered the parachute, swam to the raft, mounted the rubber seat, unlashed the oars, rowed ashore...
...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 in the jungle...
...similar fire took place in the same section of the building two months ago. The damage of yesterday's fire was estimated by Peter Raft, manager of the establishment, at between $3000 and $4000. It will not be found necessary to close the cafeteria for repairs...
...march to the Indies swirled within him. But he went no farther than Egypt, returned to Paris without his army. Everyone knows the rest of the story?the coup d' etat . . . imperial crown of golden laurel leaves . . .Austerlitz and "name your children after me" ... a treaty on a raft at Tilsit . . . the comet begins to droop . . . conqueror of a burning Moscow . . . Leipsig and puny Elba . . . Waterloo and hellish St. Helena...