Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, passengers on the 20-year-old Cunard Liner Mauretania, swiftest pride of British fleets, found themselves in Manhattan only a little more than five days after leaving England-"second fastest boat crossing of all time." The Mauretania's 1924 record of five days, three & one-third hours has never been bettered. Before the Mauretania, new speed champions were built at the rate of twelve every 50 years. But there has been talk, which had become more specific by last week, that great wharves were about to be built at Montauk Point (at the easternmost tip of Long...
...another; private planes raced; stunt flyers gyrated; parachute jumpers floated. No astonishing speeds were made. Twenty thousand Spokaners cheered and shivered to see the ships go by. At the Lido, Venice, Plight Lieutenant Sidney Norman Webster, one of the British entrants for .the Schneider cup, broke all speed records with an average of 281.488 miles an hour. The best previous record, 246.496 miles an hour, was established last year by Major Mario de Bernardi, of the Italian air force, who wrested the cup from the U. S. at Hampton Roads...
...took to the first tee a temperature of 102 degrees (la grippe). She came to the 18th green with a stroke score of 96, failing to qualify, losing her chance to defend the national golf championship which she won last year. Ada Mackenzie, Canadian, broke the women's record for the Cherry Valley course at Garden City, L. I., with a 77 to win the qualifying round. In the second round Mrs. W. G. Fraser, Canadian, defeated Glenna Collett, twice national champion, 2 and 1. Spectators said that Mrs. Fraser was in form again to win the title, which...
...airship Norge over the North Pole, it works up to a denunciation of the Italian skipper, Umberto Nobile, who piloted the ship. ". . . This hired skipper of a Norwegian ship owned by an American and myself shall not be permitted to usurp honors that do not belong to him. This record is written to prevent...
...valley of Frazer River, only 100 miles east of Vancouver. Cause: derailment or broken car wheel. And the operators of the Canadian Pacific- than which no railroad is better known throughout the world-how were they to feel? They felt the more distressed because of their amazing record of having transported about $25,000,000 of silk every month for 20 years without damage to a single silken strand...