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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hosing. A Keystone Army bomber over Manhattan and a Ryan monoplane over Fort Worth, Texas, each last week received their gasoline by hose. This was the method which enabled Captain Ira Eaker and his crew of four to keep the Army Fokker Question Mark above Southern California 150 hrs., 40 min., 16 sec., last January (TIME, Jan. 14), longer than any human had ever stayed...
...innings; by Poole, 1 in 1 inning; by Dudack, 0 in 2-3 inning. Hits--off White, 7; off Poole, 3; off Dudack, 0. Base on balls--off Page, 6; off White, 3; off Poole, 1. Passed ball--Batchelder. Losing Pitcher--White. Time--2hrs., 15 min. Umpires--Stafford and Janvrin...
...indicted by the Grand Jury at 10:25 a. m. for carrying concealed weapons, went on trial at 11:30 a. m., pleaded guilty (with Cline) at 12:15 p. m., started a year's sentence at 12:50 p. m. Exactly 16 hrs. 35 min. elapsed between his arrest and the beginning of his sentence-a record. Remarked Capone: "They work fast here...
That done, they hauled tarpaulin, chain and padlocks from their cabin and securely shrouded their motor from prying eyes. They had reached Langley Field in 6 hrs. 50 min. flying time and they took precautions because, underneath the chain-wrapped tarpaulin, was the first diesel-type motor ever used successfully for airplane propulsion. The flyers were Mechanical-engineers Lionel M. Woolson and Walter Edwin Lees. Their employer, developer of something new and great in the air, was Packard Motor...
Died. Edward Payson Weston 90, of Brooklyn, N. Y., able pedestrian; in Brooklyn. His U. S. records: Boston to Washington, D. C., 443 mi., 208 hrs.; Portland, Me., to Chicago, 1,345 mi., 25 days; Manhattan to San Francisco, 3,500 mi., 104 days (aged 71); Santa Monica, Calif., to Manhattan, 3,500 mi., 77 days (aged 72). In a race in England he walked 550 mi. in 141 hrs., left his nearest competitor 100 mi. behind...