Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian Club he said: "Unless we can preserve the bond of reverence between us [Great Britain and the Dominions] nothing else can take its place." He asked their cooperation in getting more Canadian orders for British factories according to the plan recently outlined on a whirlwind tour of the Dominion by big, blarneying British Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Jim") Thomas (TIME, Sept. 2). Ottawa. The quiet city dubbed Canada's capital by Queen Victoria is one-fifth as populous as bustling, industrial Toronto. But of Ottawa's 126,000 citizens a full 1,000 turned...
Cross-country Refueling. A most practical solution of refueling flight was undertaken last week - an attempt to fly from Spokane to New York and back (7,200 miles) refueling on the way. The Spokane Sun God, a Buhl biplane with Wright whirlwind motor, carried Lieut. Nick B. Mamer and Pilot Art Walker. At first they had trouble in making their refueling contacts on their way to New York. More fortunate were they on their way back, had reached St. Paul without mishap as the new week began. Texas Co. (gas & oil) announced that it would establish refueling stations over...
...moratorium on what she owes for War stocks. Logically the Government's position was unassailable-either ratify or pay at once "through the nose." But to Propagandist Franklin-Bouillion logic is something which can always be worsted by appeals to passion. Working himself by degrees up to a whirlwind climax, he pointed an accusing pudgy forefinger at M. Briand, shouted defiantly: "You cannot and you shall not force France to debate the debt settlement with a knife at her throat...
While other people were doing such things, Aviators Loren W. Mendell, 30, of Los Angeles and Roland B. Reinhart, 29, of Salem, Ore., listened for 246 hr., 43 min., 32 sec., to the steady roar of an old Wright Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an old Buhl air sedan called the Angeleno, and soared, soared, soared over Southern California. When they had been up 175 hours, one hour longer than the last World's record (TIME, July 15), a great crowd gathered at the Culver City airport set up such a hullabaloo that "talkie" directors on nearby lots...
...Roger Quincy Williams, left-handed pilot, and Lewis Yancey, left- handed navigator, after a six-week wait and two accidents to their first plane, the Green Flash, flew a second Bellanca, one- Whirlwind-motored Pathfinder, unerringly from Old Orchard, Me., to Santander, Spain, where gas shortage had forced the Old Orchard-Paris Yellow Bird down three weeks prior (TIME, June 24). Gas shortage also arrested the Pathfinder's flight. Bound for Rome, she rose again and got there without another stop...