Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Painswick, England, twelve boy bellringers, locked in a church tower with no food or drink, rang 17,687 changes (continuous, unrepcated harmony) on twelve bells in 11½ hr., claimed a record...
...Pilot Nettleton had taken off from Newark Airport nine days earlier. For "junior" and "women's" speed records, only flying time is counted. Present east-west junior record of 24 hr. 2 min. was made by Stanley Boynton in six days...
...marked mail route from New York via Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago. In trimotored Fords, streamlined and otherwise "cleaned-up" to cruise at 125 m.p.h., passengers and mail will make the westward flight in eight hours. Boosted along by prevailing winds, the eastbound planes should take only 6½hr. Fare...
...United Aircraft & Transport Corp.) at Chicago, N. A. T.'s new service completes another through passageway for transcontinental passengers. The California-bound traveler reaches Chicago by early evening in ample time to board Boeing's night mail plane to the coast-total flying schedule 28½ hr. But unless the mail load is light, in which case a maximum of four passengers might be taken, the passenger must wait overnight in Chicago for the morning transport, arriving in San Francisco the morning after that. When enough travelers appear to demand it, large passenger planes may be flown regularly...
...Fastest trains, notably the 20th Century Limited and Broadway Limited, schedule 20 hr., fare plus Pullman...