Word: odom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. William P. (Bill) Odom, 28, record-breaking (73 hrs. 5 min.) round-the-world flyer (the Reynolds Bombshell); by Dorothy W. Odom, 28; after nearly nine years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Milton Reynolds, Chicago's high-flying penmaker, and globe-circling Bill Odom took off from Honolulu. The only purpose of their trip, they said, was to Look for a hitherto undiscovered world's tallest mountain, somewhere near the headwaters of the Yangtze. For the benefit of Chinese Communists, they added firmly that they were not looking for uranium...
...Greece. 5. New Mexico. 3. Guatemala. 81. Flyer Bill Odom set a new record by circling the globe solo in an hour and five minutes more than...
...Odom got home at 1:58 p.m. Sunday. He had flown 19,645 miles (4,049 miles farther than Post) in 73 hours 5 minutes (113 hours, 44 minutes less than Post). His time was also five hours 50 minutes faster than the previous round-the-world speed record, which he had set in April in the same plane, over virtually the same course, accompanied by a flight engineer and Penmaker Reynolds...
...Pilot Odom looked fine. Said he: "The good Lord was taking care of me last night. That business scared me so much I haven't felt sleepy since...