Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition report was published within 24 hr. of its receipt at the White House...
...greatly surprised last fortnight when modest, youthful Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl was given the most coveted station in naval aeronautics: command of the nearly-completed Akron, largest dirigible in the world. A veteran of 3,333 hr. airship flight, a survivor of the storm-torn Shenandoah, he is indisputably the Navy's No. 1 lighter-than...
...flats." His investigating commission, however, had not been so sanguine of immediate benefits to the Little Fellow. While the development was primarily for the benefit of the domestic and rural consumer, the Commission pointed out that the big industrial users whose demand for power is on a 24-hr. basis would possibly "receive a larger percentage of reduction in rates than will the domestic consumer...
...Transport (New York-Chicago) and Boeing Air Transport (Chicago-San Francisco). Passengers leaving New York about 9 a. m. transfer at Chicago in midafternoon, fly all night (in darkness over lighted airway from Iowa City to Salt Lake City) to land in San Francisco shortly after noon (31 hr.). Eastbound passengers take off about noon, fly in darkness from Salt Lake City to Omaha, reach Chicago at 11 a. m., New York in early evening (28 hr...
...Capt. Fausto Cecconi, 26, former co-holder with Maddalena of two flying records. With their companion, Lieut. Giuseppe Da-monte, they were going to Rome to try and regain their non-refueling endurance and distance records from the French, who had just wrested them away with a 76-hr, flight. Over the Mediterranean not far from Pisa, the plane's propeller snapped. Flailing blades ripped through the cockpit, slashed the fuselage in two. One man tried to jump as the plane dove. But his parachute was caught in a strut, he went to death with his mates...