Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such language as has rarely sullied British Parliamentary debate was heard in an angry, tired and sleepy House of Commons last week when crippled but indomitable Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden forced Parliament to sit continuously for 21 hr. 48 min.?at an estimated cost of £250 ($1,215) for unwonted lighting and overtime pay to attendants. From start to finish the grueling debate was a snarling match between Mr. Snowden and his bellicose predecessor as Chancellor, famed Winston ("Winnie") Churchill...
...Sofia, Bulgaria, George Tzanoff sat in a restaurant, smoked 144 cigarets in 15 hr., broke the previous world's record of 121 cigarets in 24 hours...
...Last week Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder of the world's refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been...
...flew a Lockheed plane, but one more powerfully motored. Col. Lindbergh carried his wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached Roosevelt Field from Glendale, Calif, in 14 hr. 45 min. 32 sec. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew from Los Angeles to Curtiss Airport five miles short of his goal. Roosevelt Field, in 15 hr. 37 min., almost an hour slower than the Lindberghs. He had alighted twice in between (the Lindberghs only once), and he was out of fuel...
...those visible from Chicago's side of the earth - in full bloom, he set the universe into action at a dizzy pace. Earth, a brisk little body, made her yearly trip around the sun in four minutes. Neighbor Mars required 7.2 min.; poky Jupiter 47.2 min.; Saturn 2 hr., 56 min. Scurrying Venus made her lap in 148 sec.; Mercury, 58 sec. More levers were manipulated and the heavens went through a violent upheaval. Once the sky was settled again into a placid course, the audience were told that they were looking upon the heavens that Galileo studied. Next...