Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crash in the Bradshaw Mountains, Arizona, in an attempt to make another West-East flight. Recently they made a record for an East-West non-stop flight-24 hours 51 minutes. With John Henry Mears, theatrical producer, Capt. Collyer established, last July, the round-the-world record (airplane & steamship) in 23 days. Last August, Tucker with Arthur Goebel piloting the same Yankee Doodle, flew from Los Angeles to Curtis Field, L. I., in 18 hours 58 minutes, fastest non-stop Continental flight for either direction...
Silver spade cut lightly into Pittsburgh soil, scooped up a scant quart of mineral-laden earth. Ground had been broken for the $10,000,000 power plant of the Duquesne Light Co. on Brunot's Island in the Ohio River.* Celebrities and guests boarded the steamship Manitou, chatted away the half-hour trip from the Island back to the city proper. In the earth, the cut remained...
Shipping. Defraying three-fourths of the construction expenses of four combined cargo and passenger vessels to total 32,800 gross tons, the Shipping Board last week loaned the Export Steamship Corp. of New York, $4,500,000. This was the loan under the new Jones-White Merchant Marine...
...John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Co.; William P. Clyde, steamship owner; Henry Phipps, philanthropist...
Died. Capt. Samuel Bolton, 56, of the White Star Steamship Doric; in Liverpool, England...