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...feet before he could get his stalled engine started from another tank. Over Pennsylvania, he plugged in an electric razor and shaved. Then he landed his plane at Teterboro (N.J.) Air Terminal, just 36 hours and 5,300 miles away from Honolulu. Average speed: 147 m.p.h. It was the longest nonstop flight ever made by a light plane (1,700 miles longer than Lindbergh's flight to Paris in 1927). Odom stepped out looking as spruce as any executive on his way to the office...
Despite the decisive whipping the varsity administered to Yale last weekend, they are by no means a shoo-in to repeat the process tonight. The three hour ride to New Haven, the factor of playing on a strange rink--one of the longest and thinnest in the region--before a partisan crowd, are but two forces which could operate against the Crimson...
...donned a claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...
...longest systems: Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, New York Central. * It and the new streamliners were built by Philadelphia's Budd Co., headed by Edward G. Budd...
...boss of the small Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad, Harry Bartlett Stewart Jr., 44, had spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train. Last week, he formed a company to build the longest conveyor belt in the world to haul coal and ore. It would stretch from Lorain on Lake Erie for 103 miles south to East Liverpool on the Ohio, with branch belts to Cleveland and Youngstown...