Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buffalo, the mile-relay team of Manhattan's Grand Street Boys Club (Olympic Champions Herb McKenley Andy Stanfield, George Rhoden and Mal Whitfield) breezed through their event in 3 min. 14.4 sec., an unofficial indoor record...
...March 2 News in Pictures spread: You say the lady in the pancake race in Olney, England ran 415 yards in "1 min. 7.2 sec." If she had gone 75 feet farther [at the same speed], she would have run the quarter mile in approximately 71½- seconds. Having in view her habiliments, sex, the skillet and other handicaps, this seems to me incredible...
...Oaxaca. Italy's Ascari skidded off the road and cracked up his Ferrari; the surprise first-day leader turned out to be the little (1½-liter) French Gordini, driven by an ex-motorcycle racer named Jean Behra, who set a blistering average of 89 m.p.h. Only 5 min. 37 sec. behind the Frenchman was Italy's Bracco, with Germany's Karl Kling, greying veteran of prewar races, right at their heels...
...Force base at Thule, Greenland-a scant 900 miles from the North Pole-the plane was soon airborne again, driven toward Denmark by 95-m.p.h. tail winds. Scandinavian's route-blazing flight ended at Copenhagen, after a flying time of 23 hrs. 34 min. (plus stopovers of 4 hrs. 43 min.) from Los Angeles. Time in the air was 3½ hours less than the present commercial flight time by way of New York and Newfoundland...
...longest speech (3 hr. 39 min.) ever made to U.N. members in General Assembly history, but all Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had to say was summed up in a 97-word proposed resolution: the job of bringing an end to the war in Korea should be handed over to a U.N. commission composed of "the parties directly concerned." This meant, obviously, North and South Korea, the U.S. and some, or all, of the U.N. allies; but would it also include Red China and Russia? Mr. Vishinsky...