Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather prophets advised against the start. Lieut. Henry B. Clark, in charge of Roosevelt Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military...
...Chance, heroine of Oceanographer Iselin's earlier expeditions is preparing to start next month on an "around the world cruise." Five recent graduates of Yale will collect flora & fauna during an 18-month trip. They are Edward Dodd Jr. (son of the President of Dodd, Mead & Co.) who will write a book on his return; Alexander Brown and G. Clymer Brooke of Ardmore, Pa.; Thomas Marshall of Philadelphia; Joseph Roby of Rochester. The vessel will be commanded by Lieutenant Alexander Gray, U. S. N., retired...
...Olympic Games. Canada had already picked the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto. The U. S. problem was to find out whether undefeated California or undefeated Yale could be defeated. They met on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to decide. California took the lead at the start. It was a small lead-one-half a length-sometimes it grew to three-quarters of a length, but never did anybody see any open water between the shells of California and Yale. They were going along at a high beat of about 40 strokes a minute; yet the two crews seemed tied together...
...thought THE ONE centre of aviation in the U. S. It also likes to attract aircraft factories to the city. Both ends were furthered, last week, when Detroit played host to famed aviators, U. S. and foreign balloonists, airplane designers and manufacturers, 1,000 engineers, gathered to see the start of the Air Olympics...
Serious-minded visitors, to whom aviation is first an industry, then a fine art, concentrated on the start of the fourth National Air Tour. Twenty-five planes, ranging from two-seater "flivvers" to trimotored, all-metal monoplanes, carefully handicapped for speed and weight, took off from Ford Airport at one-minute intervals, ready to fly 6,300 miles swiftly, safely, reliably...