Word: round-the-world
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...White House to be congratulated by President Hoover went Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin just back from .its round-the-world flight (see p. 42). The President said: ". . . The spirit of high adventure still lives ..." and returned to his desk...
Land of the Soviets, Russian round-the-world plane, was forced down and damaged in an uninhabited Siberian region, 170 miles from Irkutsk. The tour was canceled...
...Krupp-built yacht Vanados, then Largest Yacht, rechristened it Warrior, equipped it with apparatus for testing ocean currents and temperatures. In 1926 he married Mrs. Mona Travis Strader Bush, onetime wife of James I. Bush, vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and took the Warrior on a round-the-world honeymoon. When the Prince of Wales visited the U. S. in 1919, he was Mr. Williams' guest at Glen Cove, L. I. Last May Mr. Williams bought the late Elbert H. Gary's house at 5th Avenue and 94th St., Manhattan...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, pausing last week at Malaga, Spain, on his round-the-world yachting trip, gave a too large check to a Malaga merchant. Honest, the tradesman offered change. The Vanderbilt answer, as reported by the New York Times: "Keep the change, and the microbes with...
...Flying Fleet (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A lieutenant-commander (retired) in the U. S. Navy, one Frank Wead, wrote this script showing how naval aviators are made-Annapolis, then round-the-world cruise, then training school at Pensacola. Anita Page falls from an aquaplane into the plot. This air-photography is good, but Wings was better. The final sequence, in which one pilot dives at another on the field and afterwards rescues him when his plane falls into the Pacific, is about as true to life as a recruiting poster. The sallow aviator is Ramon Novarro...