Word: solvesborg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come again to earth. Dawn found one of them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest...
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