Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceeded by train ... to San Luis Obispo and then by motor over 50 mi. along the ocean into the mountains of the Pacific Coast to an altitude of about 2,000 ft. to the Hearst Castle, La Cuesta Encantada, meaning the enchanted hill...
...lights, last year it manufactured and purchased 2,614,978,628 kilowatt hours of current. In the U. S. only three companies-Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp. System, the Commonwealth Edison Co. and the New York Edison Co. System-surpassed it. The Tokyo company serves 11,395 sq. mi. across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron...
...taken Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix a little more than six days to complete the Tokyo to Paris (10,370 mi.) lap of the round-the-world flight which they started in October, with a hop across the South Atlantic. They had dallied in the U. S. and crossed the Pacific, which no man has ever spanned by air, in a boat. Their last spurt broke all speed records for the journey...
...Miami Beach, Miss America V twice lowered the world's hydroplane record for six miles, averaging first 50.72 and then 56.72 mi...
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