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Ferdinand Magellan, first world circumnavigator, required three years (1519?22) for his sailing trip. Author Jules Verne's fictitious "Phileas Fogg" required 80 days; Nellie Bly, New York World reporter, 72 days (1889); U. S. Army planes, 175 days, of which 15 were actual flying days (1924); John Henry Mears and C. B. D. Collyer, record holders, 23 days (1928). The Graf Zeppelin expected to fly twelve or 14 days, with four-day stops for fueling at Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles?in all, a few days more than three weeks. The Mears-Collyer dash cost them...
...cost of the four-day battle to the U. S. was $18,000, most of which went to farmers for the use of their fields, barns, outhouses. Some of the husbandmen unintentionally contributed to war-time realism when they tripped over military telegraph wires strung through their hayfields, fetched axes and hacked apart the communication lines of the defending force...
Last week, aboard the Leviathan, two people, meticulous and honest, made out their customs list. They were Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg. They were returning to New York after the signing of the Kellogg pact in Paris (TIME, Sept. 3) and after a four-day visit to Ireland...
Twenty-seven days after she sailed from Sandy Hook, New York, Azara, a 113-foot schooner, hove languidly into sight of Santander, Spain, and was towed across the finish line. The winner of the race, Elena, had made the same voyage in 16 days, 21 hours (TIME, Aug. 6). Azara's major trouble was running into calm seas. In one four-day period she moved only 20 miles. But her owners, George J. and Francis E. Baker of Detroit, gallant sportsmen, refused to unseal her engines and use them, even though the fresh water supply was running...
Retiring-Commodore Hartley did not go into the cotton business after all, instead he accepted a post as "chief operating officer" of the Transoceanic Corp., an organization which hopes to borrow money from the Shipping Board to build six fast liners and inaugurate a four-day trans-atlantic service to Europe. Said Chief Operating Officer Hartley: "I thank God for this opportunity ... to put our country back on the high seas...