Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exception was the Chicago banker, Mr. F. H. Rawson of the Union Trust Co. He was there to meet MacMillan's cabin boy. He chartered a small steamer, took aboard other impatient ones and was waiting on the pier at Monhegan Island (30 mi. up the coast) when, trailing the Peary by a few hours, the Bowdoin, Macmillan at the wheel, skimmed around Lobster Cove Point and rattled out her anchor chains in Deadman's Cove. Not the last of the landing party that soon stepped ashore was a 15-year-old Cabin Boy Kenneth Rawson, tanned, broadened...
...hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times as fast as the fastest electron (electric particle circling an atom's nucleus) and 57% faster than light. They go, in fact, 294,000 mi...
...Cooper plan transcends such feeble efforts as far as the locomotive outclassed the wheelbarrow. It calls for great sea walls, with water gates to shut the 100 sq. mi. of Passamaquoddy Bay into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close...
...south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until it was impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land. During the past fortnight the planes scoured Ellesmere Land for a safe site and thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew back to camp for more, returned...
...world had shown an increase of only 140%. This showing is all the more remarkable when it is remembered that Africa is owned by European nations who need her raw materials, and have long cultivated her markets for their goods. There are about 11,500,000 sq. mi. in Africa; England and France control about 4,500,000 sq. mi. of it apiece, Belgium holds about 1,000,000 and the remaining 1,500,000 belongs to Portugal, Italy and other countries. Yet 85% of U. S. exports to Africa last year consisted of manufactured goods...