Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Artifical gas is made by heating coal in ovens. What remains of the coal is coke. Natural gas occurs under the earth and is pumped from wells through the mains, to customers. The longest gas main in the world connects the Texas natural gas field with Denver-400 mi...
...Fifty cents for a car, 25 cents for a motorcycle, up to two dollars for a heavy truck. †About 1¾mi., longest of its kind in the world. Under the River Thames, at London, are Blackwall and Rotherhithe Tunnels, each 1¼ mi. long. Other important underwater vehicular tunnels are at Glasgow and Hamburg. The longest tunnel in the world, regardless of purpose, is the Shandaken Tunnel in New York State-28.l mi. It carries water to the Ashokan Reservoir...
There was a mighty splash as 173 swimmers, most of them naked, all of them thick with grease, plunged into Lake Ontario, in a 21-mi. race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water...
After shaking hands all round, they resorted to Denver's State Office Building, assumed their poker faces and resumed their long, long discussion of a problem vital to all, a problem in water, the main stream of water in all the 792,509 sq. mi. governed by them, the Colorado River...
Norelius 1 mi...