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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statistics: wing span, 46 feet; overall length, 27 feet 9 inches; weight empty, 1,870 pounds; wing area, including ailerons, 319 sq. feet; maximum speed, 126 miles per hour; landing speed, 49 miles per hour; overall height, 9 feet 10 inches; useful load, 1,550 pounds; pay load, four passengers or baggage, 800 pounds; climb with full load from sea level, 900 to 1,200 feet per minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A New Spirit | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Four other women have tried to span the Atlantic by air and none has succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Two Women | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

EDEN-Murray Sheehan-Dutton ($2). "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" The gentleman was Author Murray Sheehan who, so intimately has he delved into the domestic relations of the primates, must certainly have been there. This book, although it lacks the lightness of famed John Erskine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Pinch Me! | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...necessary embonpoint. The buzz-saw has ceased to hack at the disheveled hair of the fainted heroine, and the villain, with a furious gesture, has gone to meet his Maker. Gone are the thrillers and the tragedies and mysteries that held audiences tense for every moment of their diurnal span. Gone indeed, but the tradition seems to linger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LO, THE BRONTOSAUSUS | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

When making long journeys from one camp location to another, he lived in a tent, he traveled in a "buck board" drawn by two horses, while a span of "yaller" mules supplied the motivity for covered wagon, and "cullud" cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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