Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anniversary. Alvin Schmidt, Swiss manufacturing tycoon, and Frau Schmidt; their silver wedding. Celebration: a 9 hr. 20 min. joyride with 34 guests over the Alps from Basle in the Graf Zeppelin, chartered...
...remarkable. But if the flyer be the young son of a crack airman who met spectacular death; and if the boy seeks a "junior speed record," public fancy is captured. Last week Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* crossed the U. S. in 34 hr. 3 min. flying time, in a biplane named American Boy. Previous "record" of 48 hr., set last year by 18-year-old Richard James, was spread over a month elapsed time. Young Goldsborough's flight was punctuated by forced landings. Overtaken by darkness near El Paso, he settled down...
...Freddie Spencer, retired U. S. bicycle sprint champion; a 20 mi., motor-paced race at the New York Veledrome. The time: 29 min...
...Morris Davis of Manhattan, Jewish deaf mute: the Metropolitan Association A. A. U.'s 50,000 meter (31 mi. 121 yd.) walking race. Time: 5 hr. 26 min...
...Marseilles. British airmen applauded. Pilot and an escort were ready and waiting at Marseilles. With a luncheon stop at Le Bourget, where another escort of ten French fighting ships joined them, the Prince and his party flew the 615 miles to Windsor from Marseilles in 6 hr. 10 min...