Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer Matsumoto again proved he was worthy of his nickname by climbing 12,395-ft. Mt. Fuji carrying a heavy stone on his back. Next he ran 56 miles from Shirakawa to Fukushima. Last week he topped all previous feats by trotting nonstop from his hometown to Tokyo's Ueno Station. The distance": 117 miles, five times the historic run from Marathon to Athens. The time: 29 hours...
...Arthur Whitten Brown flew back to London from New York, the second transatlantic flight of his life. His first, from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock, was the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic-eight years before Lindbergh...
Airlines a nonstop Miami to Puerto Rico route. The President had ordered the Los Angeles-Mexico City route taken away from Pan Am and given to Western Airlines. A badly flustered CAB issued certificates to both Pan Am and Western. Best break for Pan Am was that it got something it has long wanted, a nonstop route from New York to Puerto Rico...
...Boeing's B29. The wing is 7½ feet thick, big enough to house: 1) a 15-man crew; 2) four 3,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines in the wing, with eight-bladed dual-rotation propellers in the trailing edge; 3) enough fuel to fly 10,000 miles nonstop; 4) a bomb load guesstimated as high as 25 tons. By eliminating fuselage and tail surfaces, whose air resistance slows down conventional planes, Northrop expects his XB-35 to fly well over 400 miles per hour...
Famous vacation trains, like the Cornish Riviera Express (nonstop London to Plymouth) and the Golden Arrow (London to Dover and Paris), were running again. Ex-R.A.F. pilots swarmed into the air-taxi business and got as much as ?50 ($200) for a flight to France (prewar British Airways price: a little over ?4). Britain's passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government...