Word: santona
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Louis Bleriot entertained them at dinners. After brief trips to the Fokker airplane plant at Amsterdam, The Hague, the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, they doubled back toward Lisbon. Forced down by fog off the coast of Spain, they came ashore in a little fishing village named Santona, were accosted by an officer who had never heard Colonel Lindbergh's name. A local tycoon named Jose Alvo took them into his house, importantly answered telephone calls from London and Paris trying to trace their whereabouts. Senor Alvo informed one caller: "Yes. Senor Lindbergh is here. He is taking...
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