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...prepared to navigate. With fuel running low, he picked out a landing spot in an island -Jomfruland-70 mi. southwest of Oslo. There he lost 18 precious hours before getting gasoline from the mainland. Off again, he paused for a brief moment at Oslo, then tore across the Baltic 1,100 mi. to Moscow where he landed three hours ahead of Post & Gatty's time...
...yachting. In his own (much overpublicized) yacht, the Velsa, a 55-ft. Dutch cutter with an auxiliary engine, a piano and an encyclopedia, with timbers that recalled the Constitution and "a cockpit in which Hardy might have kissed Nelson,'' he voyaged amiably on the Zuyder Zee, the Baltic and numerous friendly canals and English estuaries. During the War Bennett lent the Velsa to the Admiralty, and it was afterwards sold, but he rarely turned down an invitation to go cruising. In 1927 he shipped as a guest of Otto Kahn on a Mediterranean yachting trip. Though he dressed...
...jubilation the names of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Col. House, to whom grateful Warsawites have raised a towering statue (see cut). Twelve years ago, according to the Polish Foreign Office, Mr. Roosevelt wrote a magazine article in which "he vigorously supported Poland's claim for access to the Baltic Sea" (i.e. the Polish Corridor...
...farming he found himself wanting to get into the air again. He hired a manager for the farm, a plane for himself, began to pile up hours. After operating a small school of his own, he got himself appointed director of the government-subsidized Fliegerschule at Warnemeunde, on the Baltic, sunk his capital into it, won such fame for it that pilots of other European countries came for advanced training on seaplanes and flying boats...
...through Danzig that they rushed to the nearby fishing village of Gdynia on Polish soil and started building a 100% Polish port. From a population of 300 Gdynia has increased to 30,000 and from the new city great docks stretch their fingers out into the Baltic. Obviously Poles poured millions of zlotys into building Gdynia because they believed Danzig to be autonomous, a Free City under the protection of the League...