Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, twelve years after Wiley Post had crashed to his death with Will Rogers in Alaska, Bill Odom, now a lean, balding 27, made good. Alone in Penmaker Milton Reynold's Bombshell, he circled the globe between Thursday and Sunday...
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...
...Government cash. Kaiser picked Howard Hughes as his partner in the venture. Witness Merrill C. Meigs, Hearst executive and senior consultant in WPB's aviation division, recalled with awe: "Kaiser is one of the world's greatest salesmen, in a class with Diamond Jim Brady and Bill Sunday...
Stillman infirmary's wards were as quiet as a mausoleum for no ominous reasons last Sunday with only one patient, and only one other moved in yesterday to preserve a record health mark for the University, and the year's all-time illness...
Fire engine chasers will have a new engine to chase next Sunday when High Pressure Fog, Number 1 goes into service. Formerly used by the U. S. Navy, Cambridge's newest addition at Central Fire Headquarters opposite Mem Hall works best against oil and gasoline fires according to Fire Captain Timothy F. White...