Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down by their failure to imagine accurately all the physical circumstances which in a world of fact would form the background for their action. He chronicles the adventures of Miss Hope Davis, teacher of kindergarten in Low Plains, Kansas, returning from Europe on the "Ile-de-France," a ship which, from all accounts, is manned in an alert and seamanly fashion. Yet Miss Davis, falling in love with a young man who, since he is travelling with his family, does not have a private cabin, flees with him on a rough night to the bow of the ship, and there...
...afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this crew for this flight...
Inside the huge cabin the six stalwart young men in blue uniforms and white caps were too busy to do anything but their jobs. With the ship guided by a robot pilot and directional radio beam, Captain Edwin C. Musick and Chief Pilot Sullivan checked the course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made...
Capt. Musick and his men stepped from the ship as jaunty and fresh as if they had just had an overnight ride in a Pullman. With even less ceremony they refueled the Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway...
While thousands in Honolulu were cheering the Sikorsky's arrival last week, 23 men on Midway Island, a tiny tuft of green in the Pacific, were cheering the arrival of Pan American's air base construction ship North Haven, advance agent in the establishment of Pacific air service. An isolated cable relay station for 32 years, Midway is known to most mariners merely as a lighthouse. In charge of the small colony, which includes five Chinese and seven Japanese, is Acting Cable Superintendent G. B. Perry, who is also U. S. Naval custodian of the island...