Word: baltic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lauri Relander of Finland left Helsingfors last week, sailed across the Baltic, sped by rail down through Sweden, crossed over to Copenhagen, famed "Paris of the North...
...neutrality and non-aggression with Soviet Russia. The treaty is to run for five years and contains a clause recognizing the territory of Vilna as Lithuanian. Poles were vexed, since Poland claims that Vilna is Polish. Moscow newsorgans hailed the pact as a blow to British influence in the Baltic...
...slim bronze dolphin coursed the Baltic Sea one day last week, sped in a straight line for four miles with the accuracy peculiar to automobile torpedoes...
...bubbles had come again to earth. Dawn found one of them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles...
...Goodyear IV from Little Rock, Ark., 780 miles to Petersburg, Va. (TIME, May 10, AERONAUTICS). Boettner and the Akron N. A. A. finished second in that race. Pilot Van Orman also won the Litchfield Trophy last year with a flight of 1,072 miles. His avoidance of the Baltic Sea last week reflected a lesson learned in the Bennett race last year when he and the Goodyear III dropped into the Atlantic, being rescued by a passing steamship (TIME, June...