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...passenger could travel 32,000 times around the earth, 25,000 mi. each circuit, without accidental death, traveling continuously at the rate of 50 mi. an hour for more than 183 years...
...Gold, to the Oregon Short Line (unit of Union Pacific), winner of group A (operating over 10,000,000 locomotive mi. annually). Last year Union Pacific won group...
...Silver, to Oregon-Wrashington Railroad & Navigation Co. (also a Union Pacific line), winner of group B (operating between 1,000,000 and 10,000,000 locomotive mi...
...famed as world flyers (TIME, Sept. 12, 1927). Stepping into a Wasp-powered Lockheed Vega at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. they set a new record of 31 hr. 58 min. elapsed time for round-trip flight across the U. S. Their route to and from San Diego. Calif, was 800 mi. shorter than that (Roosevelt Field, L. I. to Los Angeles) over which Capt. Frank M. Hawks made his record of 36 hr. 48 min. last year. But Flyers Brock & Schlee beat by many hours all previous records over their course...
Last week dispatches to the New York Times told how, on June 3, two German climbers had reached Jonsong's pinnacle, highest yet scaled by man. Five days later another four made the ascent. As the latter group climbed they could see Everest, 50 mi. away, down whose appalling sides six years ago Arthur Comyn Irvine and George Leigh Mallory tumbled to their death after attaining higher ground (over 28,000 ft.) than any man before or since...