Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...9/21/55. Yesterday I saw to aircraft both right over head. The first was yellow and black. And it came over at 14:20. And the other was the same as the day before only 10 min. early-16:40. I also went down to the seashore after the last aircraft went by and as I swimming, I saw a boat. I couldn't get him to see me. Chuck, I was looking at the tree that I hit. You know, the old girl did a good job. She went right through. Tore hell out of the tree...
...self-propelled crossing of the English Channel, Marathon Swimmer Florence Chadwick, 36, of San Diego, set a new speed record, splashing ashore in France 13 hr., 55 min. after leaving England. Her time was eleven minutes faster than the record set in August by English Swimmer Bill Pickering...
...more than $7,000,000-Director Wellman has apparently decided that when people go to the movies they want to kill time, no less than to live dangerously. In Blood Alley, he gives them plenty of chance to do both. The picture is not only long (1 hr. 55 min.), but also in a cheerful, stop-me-if-you've-heard-this way, it stirs up plenty of tarnation...
...minutes later he put down at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. While newsreel cameras whirled, Hackett and Moneypenny spent 35 minutes on the ground, getting themselves and their plane refueled. Aided by tail winds, the Canberra arrived back in London in a record 6 hr. 17 min. The total elapsed time (14 hr. 21 min.) was no great shakes in these jet days, but Messrs. Hackett and Moneypenny could lay claim to be the first men ever to breakfast in London, lunch in New York and get back to London for dinner...
...Goshen, N.Y., in harness racing's Kentucky Derby, Scott Frost, a three-year-old California bay colt, took the $85,000 Hambletonian. Time for final heat: 2 min. 3/5 sec., only 3/5 sec. slower than the record set by the winner's sire, Hoot...