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...stoutly repeated Mr. Harman, "and as the sovereign of Lundy, I coined puffins and half-puffins as I have a right to do!" Counsel for Mr. Harmun argued that his 1,150-acre-island, 12 mi. off the north coast of Devon, is "not only outside the British Realm but outside the rest of the world.'' They declared that it was chiefly this circumstance which attracted Mr. Harman to Lundy, caused him to buy the island in 1925 for the round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from...
Last summer Boulder Dam advocates proposed that the U. S. settle its dispute with Mexico over the waters of the Colorado River (which empties 80 mi. below the border) by the purchase of Lower California. With the money she got from the sale, they contended, "Mexico could settle not only U. S. claims but also all her debts to Britain, France and every other country." Big Navy men, who have repeatedly charged that Japan covets Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of Lower California as a base from which to attack the U. S., warmed to any proposition which would...
...Last month Lower California was officially divided into northern and southern territories. Total population: 62,831 (1921). No railroad traverses its length of 760 mi...
Alicia Patterson, aviating daughter of aviating Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News, Liberty), left Sydney, Australia, accompanied by a fellow Chicagoan, Elizabeth Chase, to fly across the interior of that continent. Their destination: Darwin, North Australia, 1,900 mi. northwest of Sydney. En route they planned to stop at an oasis, hunt kangaroo...
Through floating clouds, dimly illumined by the full moon which General Balbo had awaited, the formation flew south and west across the narrowest neck (1,860 mi.) of the South Atlantic, checking their course by radio with the seven Italian cruisers strung along the route