Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record five craft went the whole way; no boatman was badly hurt. Elapsed-time records showed that the winner was Erich Seidel, who, after starting last, had skimmed upright down the wild Arkansas in a record 3 hr. 4 min. 32 sec. While cheers echoed off the Rockies, Winner Seidel stood by unresponsively, fighting a case of stomach cramps. His companion. Theo Rock, who wound up second, sang a swan song. "For a man of my age, this race is enough," vowed he. "There is nothing in Europe to compare with...
Colonel Michael McCoy, who commands the only combat-ready all-jet bomber wing in the U.S. Air Force, flew one of his sleek, swept-wing B-47s from the U.S. to Britain last April in a record 5 hr. 38 min. Last week, when his 306th Medium Bombardment Wing, battle-loaded with dummy atom bombs, set out for a 90-day tour in England, Colonel McCoy bent no throttles. Leading the first formation of 15 planes from Limestone, Maine to Fairford, Gloucestershire, the colonel took 5 hr. 53 min. to make the crossing...
Next day the pilots of the 306th began to show the colonel up. Of the 15 planes in the second echelon, one made the crossing in 5 hr. 37 min., and two more did it in 5 hr. 36 min., both shaving McCoy's April record. The final echelon, which roared into Fairford on the third day, did better still. One plane made the run in 5 hr. 30 min., another in 5 hr. 29 min. In the last of the wing's 45 planes came one of McCoy's squadron commanders, Lieut. Colonel Benny Klose...
...previous record holder (18 hr. 23 min., in 1908): Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette. who had the benefit of rests during quorum calls. The preMorse record for talking longest without quorum calls (as Morse did) was held by Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender (12 hr. 20 min., in 1949). †Of such legislative shenanigans, the elder Henry Cabot Lodge once observed: "To vote without debating may be ... rash, but to debate and never vote is imbecility...
...Argentina's Fangio-both in Alfa Romeos-and Gianni Marzotto in his Ferrari. At the end of 950 miles, it was Marzotto's Ferrari, smaller and easier to handle than the huge Alfas, which crossed the finish line first in new record time: 10 hr. 37 min. 19 sec., for an average speed of better than 88 m.p.h. As expected, the little 1,500 c.c. German. Porsche jobs proved to be the secondary sensation of the race. Every one of them finished, the leader at a 75 m.p.h. average...