Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's motor. Its driver handed Mr. Hoover a box of sandwiches prepared after his departure. Without stopping the President munched bread & chicken & cheese while his car whizzed through heavy holiday traffic, got him back to the White House in the record time of 2 hr. 41 min...
...Distance covered: 15,474 mi.; flying time, 4 days, 10 hr. Previous round-the-world record was the Graf Zeppelin's 21 days 7 hr. 34 min. Her distance...
...Post had whipped the plane off a concrete avenue and out of Edmonton, Canada, that morning, re-fuelled at Cleveland less than four hours ago. Only the final sentence remained to be written with the actual landing. That was the Winnie Mae's time: S days 15 hr. 51 min. around the world, a record.* The tale of the flight being already thrice-told, the news yet to be created was that of the hysterical reception at the field, an event which the Nassau County Police saved from stereotype by slugging jaws and cracking pates among the crowd...
...honestly say we were lost," Post said later, "but we just didn't know where we were" when they found themselves over land next morning. They spotted an airport, landed, asked: "Is this England, Scotland or Wales?"* It was Sealand Airdrome near Chester, England, 16 hr. 17 min. from Harbor Grace...
...little less than two hours the Winnie Mae was off for Berlin, landed first at Hanover by mistake. Fatigue was beginning to tell, for Post neglected to refuel there and turned back to Hanover again 15 min. after leaving...