Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Safely home last week came Charles Boettcher II, 31, wealthy Denver investment broker who had been kidnapped on the night of Feb. 12. His story: After being carried for some 18 hr. in an automobile, he was kept with eyes taped in a room which he judged by its musty smell to be a cellar. He never saw the two, possibly three, men who guarded him. Returning, they left him on a side-street in East Denver...
...Monstrous Primo Camera: his fight against Ernie Schaaf for the right to a world's championship bout against Jack Sharkey; by a knockout in the 13th round; in Manhattan. Schaaf, hospitalized immediately after the fight, recovered consciousness after 1 hr. and 45 min., developed an intracranial hemorrhage. Sports-reporters, incorrigibly skeptical about all Camera's doings, first described the knockout as a fake, hastily acknowledged its authenticity three days later when doctors operated to remove a blood clot from Schaaf's brain. Schaaf, 24, never rallied, died early next morning...
...third day the flyers picked up the coastline, had only to follow it as far as they could: Fuel ran low, so they landed at Walfish ("Whalefish") Bay, 770 mi., short of Cape Town. Total distance: 5,340 mi., a non-stop distance record. Flying time: 57 hr...
Capt. James A. Mollison, the Scotsman who flew the North Atlantic "uphill" (east-to-west) last year, flew from Lympne to Brazil in 3 days, 10 hr...
With a cargo of flowers, fruits, films, photos, Pilot "Buddy" Jones whipped a silvery Lockheed of Air Express Corp. off the runway of United Airport, Los Angeles, one afternoon last week to touch wheels at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. at dawn. Time: 14 hr.-a transcontinental record for commercial planes. Scheduled time: 17-18 hr...