Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lancashire hundreds of thankful people went off the dole and back to work last week. Two cotton mills, long closed, opened; a third that had been operating on a 48-hr, week, changed to a 55-hr, week for at least the next ten weeks. In Britain as a whole the total unemployment figure (2,825,000) had dropped 60,000 in the past fortnight. Economists were not overexcited. Just as they had prophesied when Britain went off the gold standard (TIME, Sept. 28), trade has revived because British goods are cheaper, more attractive to foreign buyers. Another stimulus...
...last flight of the season for the Bremen plane and Pilot Fritz Simon & Mechanic Rudolph Wagenknecht would make it remembered through the winter. Their rival brothers, the plane crew of the Europa, had made a record last month by landing the mail in New York 28 hr. ahead of the steamer (TIME, Sept. 21). The Bremen's mail should be there 30 hr. ahead of time. The catapult on the Bremen's sundeck whirred; the plane shot into the sky 1,300 mi. northeast of Ambrose Lightship and flew on into rain, fog & headwind. At dark she alighted...
...considered it far less important than that day's World Series game. Even the "hardluck flyers," Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn, flyers of two oceans, seemed to sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been less than their troubles with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 28, et ante). Yet their flight, 4,500 mi., was one of the greatest long distance flights accomplished. They...
...John & Priscilla Alden, author of a learned book, The Road to Culture * and repeatedly voted by students the most popular man of the N. Y. U. faculty. The only strange thing found in his history was his walking 15 years ago from Philadelphia to Manhattan, 90 mi. in 23 hr. 40 min. Editors telephoned, telegraphed, cabled and radioed last week for information on Professor Shaw's eminent non-whistlers. Pouting Premier Mussolini, despatches reported, whistles. Whimsical Professor Einstein whistles. Presidents Hoover and Coolidge have never been observed whistling, but President Roosevelt did. Other famed & able whistlers found last week...
...next few days three more flights were made, at night and in the rain. Be fore the Navy officially accepts or rejects the Akron she will have undergone at least 75 hr. of trials, including a rigorous test of turning radius, a speed test with wide open motors, a climbing test, a 48-hr, flight to recapitulate all conditions...