Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed leaning toward Germany by chatting longest (30 min.) with Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath at first diplomatic reception in Buckingham Palace...
...gale at night, Fleetwing shipped a sea which carried eight men overboard. Two were swept back by the next comber, but the rest were lost. Despite this tragedy, Fleetwing finished second, 40 minutes ahead of Vesta and only eight hours behind Henrietta, winner in 13 days, 21 hr., 45 min...
...three, scheduled them to go into service this week between Newark and Chicago. To prove that the DC-3 is the world's finest transport, American last week sent one of them roaring from Chicago to Newark and back without stopping: 1,472 mi. in 8 hr. 5 min...
...astronomically possible for a solar eclipse to last as long as 7 min. at one spot. Exceptional was this week's performance, not for duration of time or dimensions of shadow path, but because its course ran almost wholly across land. Thus a wide choice of observation sites was available. Eleven parties from the U. S., England, France, Italy, Poland and Japan set up stations somewhere along the totality strip. The U. S. S. R. outfitted 25 expeditions. One group of Russians had balloons with automatic instruments on top, which, in case of bad weather, they planned to send...
...barrel-chested young man from Auburn, Ind. last week made himself the most talked about athlete in the U. S. The young man was Donald Ray Lash, 22-year-old junior at Indiana University. What made the feat remarkable was the time it took him to accomplish it: 8 min...