Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finley started at midnight, walked 21½ hr...
...Force flew to California, four of the Army's four-engined Boeing "flying fortresses" made a surprise Sunday flight of 1,700 mi., north to Augusta, Me., inland to Rochester, N. Y. and return, with empty bomb racks but full machine-gun crews and equipment, in 10 hr...
When Pilots Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill and John S. Lambie, on leave from Eastern Air Lines, flew to England fortnight ago in 21 hr., 3 min. (TIME, May 17), loose-spoken Radio Commentator Boake Carter snapped into his microphone: "Stunt flights across the ocean had their place at one time. Now Aviation has advanced beyond that point. Hopping to London to pick up some Coronation pictures and then fly back again may be a spectacular thing-but what does it contribute to the industry? Nothing as far as one can see. The country doesn't want that kind...
...took off from Southport in his Wasp-motored Lockheed Electro. last week three days after reaching Croydon. Flying blind most of the way over the ocean, Merrill & Lambie dropped down at Squantum, Mass., to check their gas supply, immediately dashed on to Floyd Bennett Field, which they reached 24 hr., 22 min. after leaving Southport. Their backer, Wall Street Operator Ben Smith who incorporated under the extraordinary title "Anglo-American Good-Will Coronation Flight Corp.," at once set about selling his exclusive set of pictures to U. S. magazines and newspapers at fat prices (see p. 17). To Flyers Merrill...
...chancel-to catch every syllable of the historic service. Radio officials later estimated that 83% of the world's potential radio audience listened in at all hours. In the U. S. alone, some 300 stations took up the waves from London for the longest transatlantic broadcast ever (7 hr.) and "the longest continuous program in radio history...