Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindsay Warren, glanced at the 40-odd members present, announced counts of 108, 102, 117.* Three perfecting amendments offered by Democratic Ways & Means Committeemen were swiftly adopted, two by the Republican opposition were just as swiftly voted down. Total time for reading and amending the 236-page bill: 2 hr. 46 min. Next day 359 bewildered Representatives appeared to vote, passed the bill by a thumping...
...Harriman realized was that railroads are susceptible to smart merchandising. What is more, he did something about it. With other Western carriers in 1933, U. P. cut passenger fares as low as 1.7? a mile. Shortly a U. P. streamlined Diesel flyer smashed the transcontinental record by nearly 15 hr. in a blaze of publicity...
...year's best British aviator, the League's members in 22 countries voted for Henry F. Broadbent, who flew from England to Australia in 6 days, 21 hr. 19 min., lowering the record set by the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, whose round-Australia time he also bettered...
...already stopped 66. The red bulb that flashes when a goal is scored gave a sudden and amazing wink. Sleepy watchers and exhausted players rubbed their eyes to make sure that they were not, dreaming. They were not. The longest National League hockey game ever played-2 hr., 56½ min. of actual play-was over, 1-to-0 for the Red Wings...
...confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating a 2,600-ft. descent. And he gave early signs of a forceful originality. Reporting Antony's convalescence from measles, his father wrote: "Antony has had a very good day and is quite peaceful. He asked for buttered eggs, sardines & blood...