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1927Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.[†]
A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, South America, or vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft, airships, balloons and other aircraft.
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Austrian Peasant Party votes to demand that Chancellor Seipel bring bill for union before Parliament and instruct delegates to Geneva to request approval of League of Nations; German industrial mission now in Vienna agrees to financial union
CHICAGO, Ill., May 7. -- Herb Pennock and Lou Gehrig collaborated here this afternoon in making the start of the Yankees' first Western invasion highly auspicious. At the same time they spoiled a matinee for 35,000 chilled fans, the largest crowd of the season at Comiskey Park, by completely submerging the White Sox by 8 to 0.
Spanish Art Theatre
Towns in Ill, Miss, Mo, Ky and Tenn rocked by quakes
Plans for bldg on Jerome Pk Reservoir site, illus
Reprs of 14 college newspapers, in convention at Amherst, deplore overemphasis on football
Chen defies powers on threat of blockade for Nanking incident; he says Nationalists would retaliate with boycott that might last a generation, article by H F Misselwitz
Navigator and Cherry Pie, the handicap stars of the Greentree Stable of Mrs. Payne Whitney, ran another remarkable race at the Jamaica course yesterday afternoon, finishing first and third respectively in the Kings County Handicap, the pair being split by the Rancocas Stable's Silver Fox.
Radio Comm receives lr from man who suggests that broadcasting may be cause of flood
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