Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely was not interested in it, any more than a man entered in a walking race would feel himself in competition with a runner who passed him on his course. Mr. Ekins is to be congratulated that he circled the globe in 18 days, 14 hr. and 56 min. Mr. Kieran holds the distinction, for whatever it may be worth, of having circled the globe in the shortest time using only the facilities of established passenger service...
...publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days, 14 hr., 56 min., 50 and 2/5 sec., by no means a record...
...game he had chosen to see turned out to be the longest (2 hr. 49 min.) and one of the most spectacular in World Series history. When it was over, 18-to-4 for the Yankees, the Giants had used five pitchers. Every Yankee including Pitcher Lefty Gomez had made at least one hit and one run. Baseball statisticians had compiled an even dozen new records. It was the biggest score and the worst beating in World Series history. Most brilliant individual performance was that of Second Baseman Tony Lazzeri. He duplicated a feat accomplished only once before...
...Johannesburg the big crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...
...Angeles' Union Air Terminal carrying eight ounces of gasoline. With news cameramen and a National Aeronautic Association official trailing in a full-sized airplane, the tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought him a backer, Cinemactor Denny crowed: "I can fiddle around as much as I want to and can quit worrying about whether the plant loses money...