Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper covered the 2,410 mi. in 17 hr. 45 min. with a payload of 8,000 letters which cost senders $1.09 each, and still had enough of its 3,000 gal. of gasoline left to fly another 1,000 mi. without difficulty...
Capt. Musick and his men stepped from the ship as jaunty and fresh as if they had just had an overnight ride in a Pullman. With even less ceremony they refueled the Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway...
Last week New York Central R. R. cut the schedule of its biggest moneymaker Twentieth Century Limited to 17 hr., effective late this month, a reduction of 45 min. from its regular New York-Chicago running time. The famed 33-year-old train will average 56.47 m.p.h. for the 960-mi. run, make a topspeed of 75 m.p.h...
Speed Queen of the Atlantic for 22 years, the Manrctania was finally dethroned in 1929 by the Bremen on her maiden trip. Few weeks later the old Cunarder amazed the world by steaming from New York to Plymouth in 4 days. 17 hr., 49 min., breaking her own eastbound record but not the Bremen's. The effort strained the Mauretania's 30,000 tons to the limit. She never tried it again...
...upheld family tradition by becoming the hero of a marine contest quite different from the sort in which his father specialized. Sailing his beautiful 72-ft. mahogany ketch Vamarie, he won the annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana yacht race (284 mi.) with an elapsed time of 58 hr. 53 min...