Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week by Los Angeles urchins who followed the walkers through Griffith Park. Thomas William Green, 39-year-old English railroad worker, was immune to jeers or encouragement. He started slowly, took the lead after 28 mi., when seven other walkers had collapsed from the heat, finished first in 4 hr., 50 min., 10 sec. Second was Janis Dalinsh of Latvia. He collapsed at the finish, had to be carried home as did Ugo Frigerio, winner of Olympic walking races in 1920 and 1924, who came in third...
Married. Aviatrix Amy Johnson, 24 (England to Australia 19 days); and Aviator James Allan Mollison, 26 (Australia to England 8 days, 21 hr.); in London...
...wind, Unguentine zoomed up 175 ft. without advancing more than 50 ft. Pilot Eaton landed without delay. His comment: "Plenty tough." Only one other pilot ventured a take-off that day. Jack O'Meara, who has glided up & down thermic currents over Manhattan, soared for 3 hr. 42 min., climbed to 3,259 ft., 45 ft. short of the U. S. altitude record. Other pilots & crews amused themselves as they do on windless days, playing baseball...
While performance during the first days of the meet did not approach that achieved in Germany, Austria and Honolulu, where records of 283 mi. distance, 8,494 ft. altitude, 21 hr. 34 min. duration have been made, it was in all respects the most successful glider meet yet held in the U. S. The entry list of 50 pilots surpassed previous years. Hard-up pilots camped in an apple orchard adjoining Elmira Airport. Three youths pedalled bicycles from La Porte, Ind. just to look...
...potatoes on the open fire to boil. After wheeling & turning about the hills for an hour, Dr. Gross suddenly remembered his cooking, swooped low over the heads of the crowd on the ridge, asked someone to look to the potatoes, floated away again. (The potatoes were burned.) For 5 hr. 8 min. Funk & Gross stayed up, Dr. Gross becoming so weary that he let his legs dangle over the edge of the fuselage...