Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together with automobile parts and miscellaneous junk at a cost of $4,000, is powered by a battery-driven electric motor. Last autumn, lying on his belly in his submerged sub, Barney Connett bored his way from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before I have to bail...
...admirers, including the Mexican Ambassador to the U. S. and a posse of his own relatives, rushed out to shake his hand, kiss him, slap his back. For Fran cisco Sarabia had set a new record of 10 hrs. 48 min. for the Mexico City-New York flight, beating the old record (set by the late Amelia Earhart) by 3 hrs. 31 min...
...Chief Clayton Bishop of the Onset (Mass.) Fire Department: the 130-mile outboard motorboat race down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City; in 3 hr., 11 min., 22 sec.; breaking the record for Class B boats (16-h.p. motors, 100-lb. hulls); and setting another record by becoming the first driver to win the race twice...
...Reichstag next day it was 2 hrs., 17 min. mostly of fun with patches of wrath, scorn, warnings, threats, insults, sandwiched in between the gags. With a pantomime that he seldom uses, the Führer, when he rose to speak, eyed his manuscript suspiciously and comically before he began to read. The deputies roared at that ; Dr. Goebbels' Berlin newspaper Der Angriff next day explained: "It was a small gesture, but one heavily packed with meaning...
...year-old Blockade and John Strawbridge's ten-year-old Coq Bruyere, the two top timber-toppers in the U. S. Blockade, chestnut son of famed Man 0' War, had clipped seven seconds off the course record last year when he won the race in 8 min., 44 sec. Coq Bruyere, a grey, had been beaten only once in six timber races last year...