Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight days. Before the War Britain and Germany had whacked the record down to five days. There it remained until North German Lloyd launched the Bremen and Europa in 1928 and 1929. The Bremen (51,656 tons) now holds the all-time record of 4 days, 14 hr., 30 min. from Ambrose Lightship to Plymouth. The Europa is 49,746 tons, both average about 26 knots. Italy's new Conte di Savoia has not yet had her speed trials, but like the Rex she is expected to cruise at about 27 knots, in a pinch turn up 29 knots...
Diminutive Jimmy Haizlip swooped across the Cleveland finish line to win the Bendix prize, then sped on for a coast-to-coast record. When he set his little plane down on Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., he had spanned the Continent in 10 hr. 19 min., nearly an hour faster than Major Doolittle's 1931 record. No sooner had Jimmy Haizlip landed than Roscoe Turner roared down on the field, 39 min. behind but still far ahead of the Doolittle time...
...eclipse is complete along a 100-mi, path, partial over the entire U. S. The path of totality moves at nearly 34 mi. per min. from northwest to southeast? from the Arctic Ocean, past the North Magnetic Pole (near where Professor Arthur Holly Compton hopes to be), across Hudson Bay, James Bay, Province of Quebec, New Hampshire, northern Vermont and southern Maine, the northeastern tip of Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The eclipse ends in the middle of the Atlantic...
...Baldwin took his car to a greasing station, requested rat-removal. Greasers searched vainly for 45 min., gave up. Mr. Baldwin went to an auto-laundry, had his car thoroughly soaked. The rat stayed inside...
...Frederick H. Prince's America's Cup sloop Weetamoe, sailed by Harold S. Vanderbilt: the fourth day's run of the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise; by 8 min. (corrected time), against Gerard M. Lambert's Vanitie, re-rigged this year and sailed by Secretary of the Navy Adams; at Mattapoisett, Mass...