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...physical side of operations, success is remarkable. In the first 31 days of the service 173,910 miles were flown. In spite of cloudbursts, tornados and severe electric storms, average westbound time of 39 hrs. 49 min. and eastbound time of 36 hrs. 21 min. were maintained. The poorest air mail schedule was 30 hours faster than that of the best rail schedule...
...Billing sley, from which he took his direction, as she was steaming in the line of flight. He followed the same procedure when he sighted the Reid and the Raleigh. At 3:40 in the afternoon he reached Iceland, the total time of the flight having been 8 hrs. and 40 min. "It was a cinch after the first two hours," said he, "but at the beginning it was nip and tuck." Meanwhile, the planes which had put back waited for another chance to attempt the most perilous flght of their journey home. On Sunday, they hopped...
...cablegram received yesterday at the Harvard College Observatory announces the discovery by Stroobant, the assistant director of the Royal Observatory at Uccle in Brussels, Belgium, of an object in the following position; March 5, 3101 Greenwich Mean Time, right ascension 2 hrs., 42 mts., 28 sec.; declination North 16 deg., 44 mts.; daily motion right ascension 1 mt., 20 sec, of time, East, 10m., are North...
Washington ............2 hrs...
...wonders if Lillian Harrison demands ice cream and soup after swimming. Last week Lillian swam the river Plate for the first time in history. Starting from Uruguay she navigated obliquely 30 miles (in 24 hrs. 19 min.) to the Argentine shore...