Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Aeronautical Exhibition and the great plane factories of the Continent. North German Lloyd advertised: ". . . Luxurious giant transports of the air ... official receptions all along the route ... all expenses on land, water and air included . . . $1,290 up ... reduced rates for aeronautic students . . . September 8, leaving New York via flagship Columbus...
Trader Horn. Shameful was the exploitation last week, in Manhattan, of a white-haired and quavering old man of 75 whose name is Smith but who has become famous as Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. His arrival from Johannesburg, South Africa, via London, was made the occasion for a humorous publicity campaign by the Publishers of Trader Horn, a biography of Afric blood and thunder which the old man is said to have "dictated" (TIME, June 27). Throughout the week, Mr. Smith wandered like a puzzled Rip Van Winkle through a series of functions at which he, in contrast to most...
Radio Corporation of America (in 1927 direct radio services were inaugurated with the Dutch West Indies, Philippines, Northern South America, Porto Rico, Belgium, Hongkong via Manila, & Turkey)-$11,799,650. Previous year...
...Into the President's study marched French Ambassador Claudel with two young men, one black-haired, sleek and wiry, the other burlier, rougher of hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want...
...dropped out of the sky and added the keys of the city of New Orleans to their watch chains. Famed flyers, they have finally worked northward to the U. S. From France across the South Atlantic, up through South America, they have been spreading the gospel of French goodwill. Via Pensacola, Fla., they aim for Manhattan. Thence, given good luck, they will complete an immense wandering with a non-stop flight to Paris...