Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personally reticent. Last summer he made an aerial tour to every State capital in the U. S., was never more than an hour behind a schedule worked out months in advance. Dr. Brock has now three ships: Taper Wing Waco, Monocoupe, Stinson Junior; has logged 2,924 hr. (540 hr. in the past year...
...atom replaces the methyl group, so after that the going was fairly easy. They had only to polymerize the chloroprene to the right point, and all of them were experienced polymerizers. When they finished they put a piece of their rubber into a bottle of kerosene, left it 72 hr. When it came out it was still rubber, retained more than half its original strength. (A piece of real rubber immersed 72 hr. in kerosene comes out act- ing like a piece of chewing...
...year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa...
Largest ship afloat, still the favorite of many a seasoned voyager, last week S. S. Majestic saw strange sights. She was placed on the "New York to Nowhere" route for a 26-hr, cruise. All was shipshape until 3 a. m. when the atmosphere in the bar became thoroughly drunken. Rowdies, angry at not being allowed to roll dice on the main deck, started to heave potted plants, get agitated. "Gimme two rods and I'll clean the place out" cried one voice to the horror of the stewards. The scene did not become quiet until eleven RKO girls...
...into the early morning darkness over Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airdrome one day last week shot "Jimmy" Doolittle's Laird racer, the one in which he crossed the U. S. in 11 hr. 16 min. 10 sec. last month (TIME, Sept. 14). In the cockpit Major Doolittle had a copy of that morning's Ottawa Citizen. That afternoon he handed the paper to a newsman on Mexico City's Valbuena Airfield, 12 hr. 36 min. after leaving Ottawa. He gave himself up to a reception committee, spurned proffered tea and asked for three fingers of brandy, declared...