The world has just witnessed the finish of another effort on the part of mankind to circle the globe in record-breaking time.  And once more the newspapers of the universe, and the sporting chroniclers, are registering a new record in this class of human endeavor.  When, three days ago, the English team, headed by Chester Hodge, dropped out of a Curtis plane into Mineola Field, it was just 23 days, 6 hours and 15 minutes after the same crew had left that field in their Vickers-Vimy. This beats the former record of 36 days and some odd hours, made in 1913 by John Henry Mears, by the substantial margin of approximately 12 days.  It is a big gain--a startlingly short time for encompassing the world as compared with the efforts of the past.