Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of 8 hr. each can build a wall 680 ft. long. 12 ft. high and 3.5 in. thick, how long will be a wall that is to be 2.5 ft. thick, 10 ft. high, that 24 men can build in 15 days of 10 hr. each...
...many days of 6 hr. each must 28 men work to earn $1,209.60 on a wage of 20¢ per hr. per person...
...fortune in Oklahoma oil. In this same plane, named for the oilman's daughter Mrs. Winnie Mae Fain, Post won the Los Angeles-Chicago air derby last year. Then Hall financed him for the attempt to break the round-world record of the Graf Zeppelin-21 days, 7 hr...
...turned immediately to the business of refuelling the Winnie Mae and checking a course across the desolate Yablonoi Mountains to Blagovyeschensk. There was no time to celebrate the fact that they had come just half way around the world from New York (8,050 mi.) in 3 days, 19 hr. True, they were 28 hr. ahead of their "round-the-world-in-ten-days" schedule; true, too, that they had but eight hours sleep since leaving New York. But some of their most arduous traveling lay ahead of them over the unbroken forests of Siberia and the wilderness from Nome...
Three days, 19 hr. before at Roosevelt Field, Pilot Post had looked out into the darkness from the tonneau of an automobile in which he was chatting with a friend and observed that the rain was slacking. "All right, Harold; let's go," he had said, as he might have suggested "Let's go to the movies." To a small group of drenched spectators, "Somebody want to crank me up?" The light of photographers' flares and the stabbing finger of a revolving beacon picked out the white Lockheed at the head of the runway for a moment...