Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first U. S. airmail service and was for ten years the only transcontinental air route. First airline to use planes built exclusively for mail & passengers. United likewise was first to inaugurate through multi-motored passenger plane service from coast-to-coast, first with a less-than-20-hr. schedule...
...Looney's recipe for 1,000 pal. of burgoo: 800 lb. lean beef with no bones; 200 lb. fat hens; 900 lb. canned tomatoes; 240 lb. canned carrots; 180 lb. canned corn; 200 lb. cabbage; 60 lb. salt; 4 lb. pepper; "my own seasoning." Cook 18 to 20 hr. in iron kettle out of doors over a wood fire. "It is thicker than soup and has a flavor from the open air you can't describe...
Champion Balko's record of 25.78 net bushels in 1 hr. 20 min. was far below the world's record of 36.9 net bushels, set in 1932 by Carl Seiler, Illinois' left-handed champion...
Last week a stock model Douglas transport plane zipped across the U. S. from Los Angeles to Newark in 12 hr. 3 min. It made but one stop-at Kansas City. Although it failed by nearly two hours to equal the coast-to-coast time of Roscoe Turner's racing plane, it broke the transport record and clearly showed that a 12-hr, transcontinental passenger service is possible, if not yet practical...
Because of an agreement with New York Central, the U. P. train had to stick to Twentieth Century's 17¾-hr. schedule from Chicago to New York. Loafing along at 60 m.p.h., it sprinted just once, between Buffalo and Batavia, to touch 112.5 m.p.h. and thereby equal the 41-year-old record of famed Engine No. 999, hauling the Empire State Express. M10001 cruised at half-throttle through the misty Mohawk Valley, stepped lightly down along the Hudson River to Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York...