Word: round-the-world
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Lord Clydesdale to drive the 400 twisty-laned miles between Oxford and Dungavel in one day. He first took up flying after his 1924 round-the-world boxing tour with Eddie Eagan...
...selling abroad about 20,000 cars a year. By 1929 he had shot this figure to nearly 300,000, was selling cars from 23 export centres to nearly every country in the world. Exporter Mooney spends most of his time inspecting his domain. A round-the-world trip is almost a yearly chore. He is 49, Irish, restless, athletic, enthusiastic, popular. He is in London as much as he is in the U. S. Though he speaks no foreign languages, he staffs his offices as far as possible with native labor, respects native customs. He knows that a maroon...
General Francesco de Pinedo, Italy's onetime Chief of Staff for Aviation and round-the-world flyer, announced in Manhattan that he is thinking of raising potatoes in China. Said he: "There are 400,000,000 people in China and if every Chinese eats one potato a day that would be 40,000,000 kilos a day. That's a lot of potatoes...
Only through consignments will be accepted. To save time checking cargo, the load compartment will be sealed at the takeoff, remain sealed during fuel stops at Columbus, St. Louis, Wichita (where pilots change), Albuquerque, Seligman, Ariz, Among the pilots is famed Clyde Pangborn (round-the-World, 1931). Unbound by mail contracts or by required intermediate stops, the company may vary the planes' routes at will to escape bad weather, also to thwart possible attempts at robbery...
...shore of Lake Constance, Switzerland one day last week, beaming with pride as one of his flying boats glided out of a soupy fog to a landing. This was no ordinary flying-boat, nor an ordinary flight. It was the sturdy Greenland Wai (Greenland Whale) completing a round-the-world trip begun 14 weeks ago, with stolid Wolfgang von Gronau and three aides as master and crew...