Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days the pilots tried with little success to make sustained flights. Then came a breeze worthy of the name. J. H. ("Bud") Stickler of Manhattan, who had won his license only the week before, took off from South Mountain and did not return for 7 hr. 28 min. Later Albert S. Hastings, last year's record holder, beat Stickler's time by more than a minute to win the Edward S. Evans trophy a second time...
...pronounced: Oddlum) whose other chief interests are his vice-presidency of Electric Bond & Share and his vice-chairmanship of its big unit. American & Foreign Power Co. Seldom in the public prints, he was written up two years ago for conducting the "most expensive telephone call," London-New York, 95 min., $1,425. Slim, nonchalant, sandy-haired & freckled, Floyd Bostwick Odium studied law at University of Colorado, in New York started work with Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett of Manhattan. In their office he became a close friend of George Henry Howard, seven years his senior. Just as Lawyer Odium left to take...
Climb (rate of climb 4,000 ft. per min...
...Preferred pronunciation: dur-al'-u-min. †A 10,000-ton cruiser costs $13,000,000. A battleship...
...awaken operactress in David Belasco's last production, Tonight or Never and married Melvyn Douglas, her leading man (TIME, April 12). On the evening her play closed she met Director Golterman, expressed a wish to make her U. S. début in his company. In 15 min. a contract was drawn up and she announced: "I am happy to make my American début in Ohio because my grandmother and her people came from the Buckeye State...