Word: hrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First across the finish line, after 4 days 13 hrs. afloat, was John Nicolas Brown's famed, 73-ft. black yawl Bolero, leader in two other Bermuda races. But when committeemen had done their homework, they found that Malay, 40th to finish in a fleet of 77, had been at sea for 5 days 5 hrs...
...with her corrected time of 4 days 3 hrs...
...arbitrary and slightly inaccurate 675 miles for last week's race, giving the Malay a handicap of 26 hrs...
...AMERICAN World Airways hopes to cash in on West Germany's fabulous economic revival by starting direct flights between Berlin and New York. Scheduled time is 17 hrs., 11 min., including stops at Hamburg, Prestwick Airport, Scotland, and occasionally Gander, Nfld. Fare...
What touched it off was the DC-7 that American introduced last November -the first plane scheduled to fly both ways nonstop from Los Angeles to New York. American's advertised schedules of 7 hrs. 15 min. nonstop from Los Angeles, and 8 hrs. 40 min. one-stop from San Francisco, were anywhere from 40 min. to 2 hrs. 45 min. faster than competing airlines. Result: large chunks of United's and T.W.A.'s blue-ribbon business have flown off in American...