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    China Clipper (NC14716) was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats built for Pan American Airways and was used to inaugurate the first...
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    Java. The boom years of the clipper era began in 1843 in response to a growing demand for faster delivery of tea from China and continued with the demand...
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    Pan American Airways. Three were built: the China Clipper, the Philippine Clipper and the Hawaii Clipper. All three had crashed by 1945. A similar flying...
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  • China Clipper is a 1936 American drama film directed by Ray Enright, written by Frank Wead and starring Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander, Beverly Roberts,...
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  • China Clipper was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats. China Clipper may also refer to: China Clipper (film), 1936, starring Pat O'Brien...
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    The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the...
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    Pan Am (redirect from Pan Am Clipper)
    Mechanics. June 1935. "Clipper Conquers Pacific on Hawaiian Hops". Popular Mechanics. July 1935. Gandt, Robert (2010). China Clipper: The Age of the Great...
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    the Pacific Ocean, ultimately reaching the Philippine Islands, on the China Clipper. Musick was born on August 13, 1894, in St. Louis, Missouri, where his...
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    The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is a biennial sailing race that takes paying amateur crews on one or more legs of a circumnavigation of the globe...
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    The China Clipper flight departure site is listed as California Historical Landmark number 968. It is the site from which Pan American World Airways (Pan...
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    Norman Kwong (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    retirement in 1960. Nicknamed the "China Clipper" (a reference to the speedy clipper ships), Kwong was the first Chinese Canadian to play on a professional...
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    29, 1870, the British tea clipper Dashing Wave, under the command of Captain Henry Vandervord, sailed out of Fuzhou, China, en route to Sydney. On August...
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    Hawaii Clipper was one of three Pan American Airways Martin M-130 flying boats. It disappeared with six passengers and nine crew en route from Guam to...
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    had recently left Pan Am, where he established most of the company's China Clipper seaplane routes across the Pacific. Noonan had also been responsible...
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  • The Wahl Clipper Corporation is an American manufacturer of grooming products. It is headquartered in Sterling, Illinois. Wahl Clipper Corporation was...
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  • shortly afterwards. During World War II, the Philippine Clipper and sister ship China Clipper were pressed into service for the Navy, though they remained...
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    harbor as the California terminal for China Clipper trans-Pacific flights beginning in 1935. The China Clipper terminal is designated California Historical...
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    airfield in November 1985 on a transpacific tour to commemorate the first China Clipper flight. Japan Airlines (JAL) used both Wake Island and Honolulu as stops...
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    Pan Am became the first airline to cross the Pacific Ocean with the China Clipper. Trippe served as the chairman of the board of directors of the airline...
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  • board. January 8, 1945 Flight 161, operated by Martin M-130 (NC14716) China Clipper, crashed short of its landing site at Port of Spain due to pilot error...
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    American Reporter (uncredited) Nobody's Fool (1936) as Clerk (uncredited) China Clipper (1936) as Radio Operator The Three Mesquiteers (1936) as John Murder...
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    35 seasons later as the NHL's all-time leader in goals and points. "China Clipper" Larry Kwong becomes the first non-white player in the league, breaking...
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    married actress Anne Nagel, with whom he had appeared in the films China Clipper and Here Comes Carter (both 1936). On January 2, 1937, three months...
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    Larry Kwong (category Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text)
    nicknames included the "China Clipper" and "King Kwong". After his playing days, he lived in Europe and became the first ethnic Chinese coach of a professional...
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    starring parts: I Married a Doctor (1936), Public Enemy's Wife (1936), China Clipper (1936), The Great O'Malley (1937), and Slim (1937) with Henry Fonda...
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    through his work at the Pasadena Playhouse. His film debut came in China Clipper (1936). He played the title character of Kid Galahad (1937), a story...
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    Airways establishing a seaplane base at Sumay for its trans-Pacific China Clipper route.: 15  On December 10, 1914, the SMS Cormoran (or SMS Cormoran...
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  • James Clavell, 1966 Struan & Company China Cloud – 22 gun China Clipper, flagship of Struan & Co Blue Cloud – clipper; Struan's ships are all named for his...
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    he moved to another clipper in 1871.: 146-147, 336-239  Taeping was wrecked on 22 September 1871 on Ladd Reef in the South China Sea while traveling to...
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    the first Pan Am Sikorsky S-42 clipper at San Francisco Bay. In April he navigated the historic round-trip China Clipper flight between San Francisco and...
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