Word: rhone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford lives in Paris where he is the center of the American literary colony. In the summer he lives at Avig-non on an island in the Rhone...
...this "dolly" had not been tested with the ship weighing over 20,000 lb. Also he knew that now, with a last-moment extra fuel tank added, the ship weighed 28,845 Ib. Earlier tests had come out decimal perfect; Designer Igor Sikorsky knew his business; the three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors had demonstrated their power conclusively and would doubtless lift the whole weight free as a bird. But still, that "dolly" . . . However, Mechanic Islamoff said nothing...
...obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that of a man speaking while trying to stifle a sob." After the service, again the bearers raised the coffin, marched the forty...
...forgotten there was a prize . Data. Captain Fonck's two care fully-chosen U. S. companions for the flight are Captain Homer M. Berry, pilot, and Lieut. Allan P. Snody, navigator. The S-35 has a wingspread of 101 feet. Her motors are three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiters, 425 h.p. apiece, brought over, installed and tested by the makers mechanic She will carry seven tons of gasoline, 1,500 lbs. of oil, enough for 4,300 miles (about 700 miles margin for defection or head winds) in the 3,660-mile route from New York to Paris...
France. The Seine rose to within 18 inches of the high water record of 1910, at Troyes; but at Paris only the suburbs had been flooded late in the week. The Marne, Loire, Rhone, Oise, Cher, etc., overflowed with variously disastrous results.. The Orne caused damages running into millions of francs and one death at Caen, the so called "Intellectual Capital of Normandy...