Word: sec
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard dash--Won by H. F. Kollmyer, (Smith); second, W. J. Loughran (Gore); third, E. C. Pinkerton (McKinlock), Time--11 sec...
...yard run--Won by G. P. Rosen, (McKinlock); second, Newell Bent, Jr. (Standish); third, R. W. Turner (Standish), Time--57 3-5 sec...
Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...
...pronouns seriously. It headlined "Hoover Advocates U. S. Court Entry," "Hoover Takes World Court Plan of Root." Seasoned Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert took occasion to remark: "Mr. Hoover is not the kind of executive who turns over problems of his administration to subordinates." If these disrespectful remarks "got the Sec retary's goat"* he made no sign, allowed his announcement to pass as a declaration that one of Herbert Hoover's policies would be to put the U. S. into the World Court...
...Flyer Waghorn, but not fastest of the day. Atcherley was officially credited with 332.49 m. p. h. in another supermarine Rolls-Royce. Later all contestants made ready to surpass that record by straightaway dashes. Herewith, for comparison, are speeds for one mile made in other ways : Doer Means Min. Sec...