Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincident with the 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...
...brother of a legend made a record for himself last week for selling his New York Stock Exchange seat for $226,000, newest high seat price; buyer was one Malcolm E. Falk, broker, who exuberantly counted on his buy becoming worth half a million dollars in five or ten years; seller was Walter L. Ross, brother of famed, because lost, Charley Ross...
Jean Callizo, French claimant of the world's record (40,820 ft.), last week lost his distinction. When he claimed the record, he was suspected; last week he seemed to rise to even greater heights, marked on his barograph as 42,650 ft. Suspecting officials had placed another barograph in his plane, unknown to Flyer Callizo, which registered only 14,764 ft. It is charged he inserted in the record-breaking barograph a sheet of paper with "42,650 ft." marked in invisible ink; when far out of sight, that he turned a steam jet on the paper; made...
Ninth Day. They landed at an airdrome six miles outside of Allahabad, took notice that they had completed slightly more than one-third of their proposed journey in slightly less than one-third of the world's record time...
...wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...