In July 1938, Corrigan piloted the single-engine plane nonstop from California to New York. Although the transcontinental flight was far from unprecedented, Corrigan received national attention simply because the press was amazed that his rattletrap aircraft had survived the journey.
he hoped that the league of Nations would help to solve international conflicts and prevent another bloody world war like the one from which the country had just emerged—World War I.
The British government did not want American colonists crossing the Appalachian Mountains and creating any type of problems with the French and Native. so they issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which declared the boundaries of the thirteen colonies as the Appalachian Mountains.
