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...Premier Otto Braun of Prussia, and 1,200 Ibs. of mail to be dropped on cities in passing, Dr. Hugo Eckener piloted his craft across France to Bordeaux, across Spain, Portugal and Tangier, out over the Atlantic to Madeira. He returned by the Mediterranean shore of Spain and the Rhone valley. The ship made its first night landing on the small Friedrichshafen field with perfect ease. Coverage: 3,400 mi. in 57 hours continuous flight. Next project: to the U. S., about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...think I have ever seen or heard before of the women you call 'Clara Bow' and 'Lillian Gish.' ... I myself turned the crank when my brother and I took our first motion picture. It was of Auguste sculling our rowboat across the River Rhone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Conquest of Culture! | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Berre. Out of the mountains were hewn 2,500,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock to make a tube nearly three times as large as a two-track railway tunnel. It forms the most important link in a series of canals and dikes that will unite the Rhone River and Central France with Marseilles, buzzing port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tunnel | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH AUTHOR TO SPEAK TONIGHT ON LITERARY LIFE | 2/23/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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