Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing in your Aug. 7 edition of TIME, in the Aeronautics division, is an article stating that it takes 10 hr. of hard driving to drive from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe. I wish to correct that statement...
...once drove the distance in 4 hr. 20 min. in a Ford from a small town 40 mi. north of San Francisco. I always drive to Lake Tahoe in not over five hours...
Statement in your Aug. 7 issue commenting on "Tahoe Takeoff" that "it takes 10 hr. of arduous driving to make the trip by motor" from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe is entirely erroneous. A very comfortable trip, including time on ferry from San Francisco to Berkeley, and a stop for luncheon or dinner on the way, is eight hours. Five or six hours if in a hurry and no stop for meal. Distance only 220 mi., splendid highway, but ferry kills valuable time...
...swinging back & forth to catch the up-currents that gave altitude, wheeled around and headed home again. Dusk fell, but breezes continued fresh. Student Schmidt thought he might as well keep on sailing. Idly he thought about endurance records. The German record was 16½ hr.; but a U. S. Army officer, Lieut. William A. Cocke Jr., had sailed for 21½ hr. over Honolulu two years ago. . . . Kurt Schmidt swung along the ridge again, soared silently through the darkness. His friends on the ground, catching the idea, flashed weather signals to him with a pocket flashlight. Midnight passed, dawn...
...status of newshawks, rewritemen, photographers et al. in relation to the 40-hr, maximum work week remained obscure last week. An assistant in NRA opined they were "professional" men, therefore exempt. Next day General Johnson called that a "slip...