Word: recorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change, claimed its backers, would let wheat compete with corn as a feed grain, and weed out inefficient wheat producers. But chances are also good that the wheat states' big commercial growers would sow record crops if freed from controls and promised $1.30 for every bushel, thus adding to the bulging surplus...
...headline-getters usually fly worlds faster, farther and higher than such lonesome greats of the olden days as Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post and Lindbergh. But the airman who comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca in 56 hr. 26 min., thereby breaking a record in his weight class...
Last spring Conrad, an ex-charter-service pilot who has logged more than 36,000 hours and more than 60 transatlantic crossings, made a Casablanca-to-Los Angeles run in the same plane with a 250-h.p. six-cylinder engine and also broke a record (TIME, June 15). This time he switched to a 180-h.p. four-cylinder engine, filled his wing tanks with 60 gal. of fuel, loaded four additional tanks (300 gal.) in the cabin and fuselage. With no supplies except three jugs of water, tea and coffee, he set out across the water...
Quincy House opened this fall, and people began eating in the new dining hall. Half of them faced the graffito, and half did not. There has been no record made of the diner's reaction, but recently several alumni without a sense of humor have expressed profound concern lest the digestive processes of Quincy pioneers be disturbed by the rudely scratched inscription on the wall...
...Crimson has some definite firstrate talent. Besides Hunter and Gorman, there is Bob Kaufmann, last year's Yardling captain who broke a national freshman record in the backstroke, but whose specialty is a very fast freestyle sprint, and Fred Elizalde, who broke the University's butterfly record...