Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous appearances of Bingham as an official in the Palmer Stadium, world's records have been set by the athletes. The first occasion was the record-smashing mile of Jack Lovelock, British miler, in the Oxford-Cambridge meet held in 1933. Lovelock's time was 4 min...
When Amelia Earhart finally set her plane down in Newark after 14 hr. 18 min., she had flown 2,100 mi. nonstop. No sooner had she cut her switch than a wildly cheering crowd, ignoring 45 policemen, surged onto the runways. Mobsters forced her out of a police radio car, carried her off the field on their shoulders. George Palmer Putnam, ubiquitous husband, became frightened, angry. Said he: "The most disgraceful scene I have ever witnessed. . . . Mexico is four times as civilized as Newark...
...Sponsors' announcements in evening broadcasts are limited to 10% of program time, except on 15-min. programs which are permitted an additional 40 sec. Day-time programs will be allowed 15% of the time for sales talks...
...operating expenses through electrification, points with pride to its passenger traffic which last year showed a gain for the first time in a decade. To increase it still further,. Pennsylvania last week cut Broadway Limited's New York-Chicago time to 17 hr. (a reduction of 45 min.), lowered the extra fare from $10 to $7.50. Simultaneously New York Central did the same with its crack 33-year-old Twentieth Century Limited...
...race took exactly 2 min., 5 sec. Omaha, the winner, bred for distance but usually a slow starter, broke faster than usual, took the lead on the far turn, stood off the challenge of Roman Soldier in the stretch, finished a length and a half in front. Roman Soldier closed strongly, four lengths ahead of Whiskolo who ran second to him in the Texas Derby. Nellie Flag, favorite when an intermittent drizzle started to put a skim of mud on the track, ran fourth. Other favored horses-Today, who bruised a heel day before the race; Boxthorn...