Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrance to the Polo Grounds, the car crossed the sidewalk, went through a gate usually reserved for groundkeepers' trucks, rolled across the outfield, stopped at a box near the Giant dugout. The President threw out the first ball of the second World Series game, postponed 24 hr. on account of rain...
...flag-decked streets of Cleveland last week tramped a veterans' army far greater than the Denver procession of 1883. Of the American Legion's 900,000 members, some 200,000 had swarmed to its annual convention and an estimated 70,000 marched in the 11½-hr. parade. Eighteen years out of the World War, the veterans were in the prime of their early 40's, marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in Paris after the Armistice as a patriotic non-political body, it was in the process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine...
...from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal carrying eight ounces of gasoline. With news cameramen and a National Aeronautic Association official trailing in a full-sized airplane, the tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought him a backer, Cinemactor Denny crowed: "I can fiddle around as much as I want to and can quit worrying about whether the plant loses money...
...trip was the inaugural flight of The Mercury, first through transcontinental sleeplane. Flown by American Airlines once nightly in each direction with big new Douglas Sleeper transports, it makes the westbound journey in 17 hr., 41 min., the eastbound in 15 hr...
...left in the race. For the first time in six years the Bendix Race went to a woman- Louise McPhetridge Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across the U. S. in 14 hr. 54 min. 49 sec., beating by 3 hr. 30 min. the women's East-West record set by Laura Ingalls last year (TIME, July 15, 1935). Miss Ingalls, ahead of her old record, came in second in a Lockheed Orion...