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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distance (straight line) : Squadron Leader C. B. Gayford and Flight-Lieut. G. E. Nicholetts; 5.126 mi. in landplane (Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: 423.7 m.p.h. | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Distance (broken-line with refueling"): Lieuts. Lowell Smith & J. P. Richter, 3,293 mi. in landplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: 423.7 m.p.h. | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Distance (broken-line without refueling) : Lucien Bossoutrot & Maurice Rossi, 6,587 mi. in landplane (France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: 423.7 m.p.h. | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...first and second 150-lb. boats; on the Housatonic River at Kent, Conn. Kent's senior boat, preparing for a trip to the British Henley Regatta this summer, won its race by four lengths, set a course record of 6:02.2 for the Henley distance (1 5/16 mi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...mi. of line, upwards of $600,000,000 in assets, gives MOP a place among the first ten U. S. roads. The Brothers Van Sweringen bought it to complete what the late great Edward Henry Harriman and Leonor Fresnel Loree long coveted-a transcontinental railroad system. Today though no other Van Sweringen line has actually collapsed, their superstructure of holding companies is supported almost solely by Chesapeake & Ohio-only U. S. road still paying dividends at the 1929 rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Receiverships | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

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