Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabin, livestock and farm equipment. They will have 30 years to pay the Government $3,000, with 3% interest, the first payment due in four years. The cabins will have built-in furniture, running water. A physician, dentist and Red Cross nurse will be in attendance. Warmed by 20 hr. per day of summer sunlight and wet by heavy rains, Matanuska loam yields whopping crops. The Japanese Current keeps winter temperatures well above those of northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The land abounds in fish & game. Over all will brood the watchful care of the U.S. Government...
...minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper covered the 2,410 mi. in 17 hr. 45 min. with a payload of 8,000 letters which cost senders $1.09 each, and still had enough of its 3,000 gal. of gasoline left to fly another 1,000 mi. without difficulty...
...fine figure of a woman, she has inherited profound theatrical abilities from her father, venerable and gifted Otis Skinner, and her mother, onetime Shakespearean Actress Maud Durbin. Last week Miss Skinner presented in Manhattan her first full-length (1 hr.; six scenes) production with a U. S. scene...
Speed Queen of the Atlantic for 22 years, the Manrctania was finally dethroned in 1929 by the Bremen on her maiden trip. Few weeks later the old Cunarder amazed the world by steaming from New York to Plymouth in 4 days. 17 hr., 49 min., breaking her own eastbound record but not the Bremen's. The effort strained the Mauretania's 30,000 tons to the limit. She never tried it again...
...Stefan Makaroff upheld family tradition by becoming the hero of a marine contest quite different from the sort in which his father specialized. Sailing his beautiful 72-ft. mahogany ketch Vamarie, he won the annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana yacht race (284 mi.) with an elapsed time of 58 hr...