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SOCIETY GIRL'S SUCCESS (Received Dec. 11, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 10. Arriving at Roosevelt Field, Now York, Miss Ruth Nichols, the Ryenny society .girl, set a trans-continental flight* time record of 13 hours 21min. She left Los Angeles on Tuesday and flopped at Wichita, Kansas, overnight. Her time, 6 hours 20min, from Wichita to here, is the best ever made to several minutes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17440, 11 December 1930, Page 8
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66RECORD FLIGHT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17440, 11 December 1930, Page 8
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