Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators at the Chicago Daily News-sponsored International Air Races. ''I'm not a bit tired," said he, despite the fact that he had just flown 4,500 mi.-from Chicago to Los Angeles to Seattle and back to Chicago-in flying time of 24 hr...
...haired Ruth Tower-Corsan of Toronto: $3,000, first prize for the 10-mile Dominion Championship swim; in 5½ hr., with Evelyn Armstrong of Detroit second; in Lake Ontario...
Down on St. Louis last month swept the fingers of a dreaded plague. At widely-separated spots in & around the city people began to grow drowsy, vomit, feel their heads ache. After 24 hr. their necks crooked stiffly back, their reflexes weakened. Most lapsed into partial, some into complete coma. Others drowsed in daytime, fidgeted at night. As the malady spread, early sufferers grew maniacal...
...Labor is divided into three stages. The first begins with pain's onset, ends with the complete opening of the womb's mouth, averages 12 hr. in first pregnancies, 4 hr. thereafter. Second stage ends with the baby's delivery, average, 4 to 6 hr. in first pregnancies, 1 to 4 hr. thereafter. Third stage ends with the expulsion of the afterbirth, should take only a few minutes...
...health and if their work does not interfere with school hours. Children between 14 and 16 were not to work more than three hours a day (between 7 a. m. and 7 p. m.), could not be hired in manufacturing or mechanical departments. 2) Provided for a 40-hr. week and minimum pay of $12 in towns of less than 2,500 and $15 in cities of over 500,000, for all accountants, clerks, salesmen (except outside salesmen, drivers and circulation men) and for all reporters earning less than $35 a week. Reporters earning more were classed as "professionals," were...