Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zoomed above more nickering towns, fields and villages, landed in a splash of mud at Cleveland. There were thunderstorms between Cleveland and Newark. He crouched in his cockpit while the rain scarred the edges of the wings. When he landed his tiny secretly built Laird biplane in Newark, 11 hr. 16 min. and 10 sec. after his first take-off Major Doolittle had broken the transcontinental record made by Captain Frank Monroe Hawks a year ago by 1 hr. 8 min. and 53 sec. He drank several glasses of water, hopped back to Cleveland where his previous stop had made...
...Myrtle Huddleston is the world's champion endurance swimmer among women. Five years ago. aged 30, she took her first swimming lesson. The next year she swam 36 miles across Catalina Channel in 20 hr., 42 min. She won the ocean championship at Del Ray Beach, Fla., in 1928. when she swam for 31 hr., 18 min. Since then. Mrs. Huddleston has been immersed in various bodies of water more frequently and for longer periods than anyone else of her sex. Most protracted was her sojourn in a Coney Island swimming pool which lasted for 60 hr...
Depression's influence on sailing this summer has been slight; on steam and power yachts more noticeable, though with notable exceptions. The new Morgan Corsair, launched in 1930, has crossed the Atlantic six times, once in record time (for steam yachts) to Southampton (7 days, 7 hr.). A dozen or more new yachts have been placed in commission this year; the biggest is Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader's 407-ft. 10 in. Savarona, built in Germany at an estimated cost of $5,000,000. Now being built for Edward F. Hutton at Kiel is a square-rigged...
...meet. For ten days the pilots tried with little success to make sustained flights. Then came a breeze worthy of the name. J. H. ("Bud") Stickler of Manhattan, who had won his license only the week before, took off from South Mountain and did not return for 7 hr. 28 min. Later Albert S. Hastings, last year's record holder, beat Stickler's time by more than a minute to win the Edward S. Evans trophy a second time...
...well-travelled Great Circle Course to Europe. For two nights and a day the plane was unsighted from land or sea, even when it dropped a copy of the New York Times upon Le Bourget Field. It landed at Istanbul's Yeshilkeuy Airdrome, 5,011 mi. and 49 hr. from the takeoff. For their superb piloting and navigation, for being the first eastward transatlantic flyers since Lindbergh (1927) to reach their destination nonstop, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha bemedaled Pilots Boardman & Polando...