Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week took off on the first scheduled commercial flight to Europe by way of the Arctic. By flying a great circle route, instead of across the continent to New York, SAS cuts the Los Angeles-Copenhagen route by 459 miles and the flying time by 2 hrs. 25 min. (The regular one-way fare of $574 saves the passenger $40; $970 round trip is $70 less.) Cruising at 300 m.p.h. at about 17,000 ft. altitude, SAS made only two stops on the 5,800-mile flight to take on gas. The plane let down at Winnipeg...
...winning time was 3 min...
...Min-K( ? Min...
Winning the international race against Finland a fortnight ago, Swedish Forestry Supervisor Bertil Norman made few mistakes, ran himself ragged and covered the course in two hr. 16 min. 37 sec. Last week, running over a different course in the Swedish national championships, Norman lost 20 minutes searching for the third control point, and wound up 115th in a field of 157. The winner: 27-year-old Engineer Nils Lange, who finished 99th in last year's championships...
...time basis, however, the second five finishers did better than the winning quintet, but the five-minute handicap was too much for the varsity runners to overcome. Morris, captain of last year's freshman squad, finished in 18 min., 34.5 sec.; and French was right behind...