Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morris Davis of Manhattan, Jewish deaf mute: the Metropolitan Association A. A. U.'s 50,000 meter (31 mi. 121 yd.) walking race. Time: 5 hr...
...Marseilles. British airmen applauded. Pilot and an escort were ready and waiting at Marseilles. With a luncheon stop at Le Bourget, where another escort of ten French fighting ships joined them, the Prince and his party flew the 615 miles to Windsor from Marseilles in 6 hr...
...celebrate its soth annual meeting, held last week in Manhattan, the Associated Press announced that it had transmitted, on March 31. a message twice around the world through 22 of its bureaus and those of the allied Reuters news agency in 2 hr. 5 min. That was cheering news to A. P. men whose meeting this year lasted but a day and whose openly discussed problems were few. routine. Ot greater public interest, however, was a thoroughgoing criticism of their organization just completed in two installments by aggressive Oswald Garrison Villard. onetime (1897-1918) president of the New York Evening...
...stunt flyer is Charles Augustus Lindbergh. It was for "pure experiment" last week that he and his small wife flew the 2,700 mi. from Glendale, Calif., to Roosevelt Field, L. I., with a 22 min. stop at Wichita, Kan. It took them only 14 hr.. 45 min., 32 sec., nearly three hours faster than any previous crossing of the U. S., but Col. Lindbergh deprecated efforts to credit him with breaking the record of Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks which, he pointed out, was a nonstop flight with a heavy fuel load. The Lindberghs held to levels between...
...news last week centred about the Yankee Clipper. Named by a committee headed by John Coolidge, which, of course, gave it much prenatal publicity, the new New York, New Haven and Hartford's Boston-to-New York express made its first trip from Manhattan last week. Time: 4 hr. 45 min.-a quarter-hour less than it take the N. Y., N. H. & H.'s other crack Boston-New York trains, the Merchants and the Knickerbocker. More expensive by $1.30 than either of these two, a ride on the Yankee Clipper costs $12.26. The train, all Pullman...