Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulge most companies inaugurate new schedules, speed up old with the coming of warm weather. Last month American Airways by a one-hour shift in a plane departure at Cleveland so bettered connections with Pan American that the New York-Mexico City run was cut from 62 to 44 hr. United Airlines last fortnight put on a new plane to San Francisco which entails the loss of only one business day, announced that before the year ended it would cut the coast-to-coast run to 22 hr. That worried Pittsburgh steel-masters may seek solace in Manhattan playhouses, Transcontinental...
...Tokyo, competing in Olympic tryouts, two Japanese runners broke El Ouafi's record of 2 hr. 32 min. 57 sec. for the marathon: Tanji Yahagi, who won, in 2:31:31 and Seiji Takahashi, who finished second...
...that Charles William Anderson Scott, after setting a new record last year, declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds!" But last week Lieut. Scott recovered his record (snatched by Charles A. Butler last November), swept into Port Darwin, Australia in 8 days, 20 hr., 49 min. out of Lympne, England. Again tired Pilot Scott announced that he was through with hopping &; skipping, said he would return "on a comfortable boat...
...most popular planes for British hopping & skipping are the De Haviland Moths, "Puss" and "Gypsy." Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler flew a Puss Moth on his startling South Atlantic hop last autumn. Last month James A. Mollison in a Gypsy hung up a new record (4 days, 17 hr., 19 min.) from England to Capetown, another well-pounded Empire race course. Britain's Amy Johnson and Peggy Salaman fly Moths. A Gypsy cruises at 90 m.p.h., a Puss a little faster. Reasons for Moth popularity: 1) British plane builders concentrate on commercial & military types; 2) with little competition...
...nearly all informal city-to-city speed records in the U. S. and Europe, was not grinning one day last week when attendants at the Worcester, Mass, airport pulled him from beneath his crashed Travel Air "mystery plane" Texaco 13. Day before he had hopped from Detroit (in 3 hr. 5 min.). lectured the Worcester Boy Scouts on the necessity of developing foolproof planes, but had delayed his departure until the next morning because of a soggy field. An escort plane had nosed up when it landed just ahead of Capt. Hawks...