Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Facts of the record which railroad men scrutinized: coal consumption, 975 tons; water consumption, 1,500,000 gal.; gross ton mileage, 13,780,749; cars hauled, 555; average day's run, 320 mi. On its last run into Kansas City, No. 4113, pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface...
Malcolm C. Rorty, engineer of International Telegraph and Telephone Co. said telephone communication was binding Latin America together, pointed out that the Argentine has 192 mi. of telephone wire to every 10,000 of population, the U. S. only 170 mi...
First Day. The "pastel dawn" was of course, at Friedrichshafen, Germany. In moving north, the ship circled Berlin before heading for Tokyo, 6,880 mi. away. Hearty Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee, President of the International Advertising Association there in convention, got to a microphone and said: "We greet the Graf Zeppelin as ambassador of good will to the entire world." The ship proceeded quietly over Danzig, Koenigsberg, the onetime Eastern War Front, into Russia...
...Last year the Dominion purchased $55,000,000 worth of goods from the U. S. (automobiles, machinery, farm implements, clothing). The U. S. imported $8,000,000 worth of South African commodities (wool, diamonds, sheep-skins). In 1925 South Africa (pop.: 6,928,580; size: 471,917 sq. mi.) had 70,000 motors: today it has close...
Water in gasoline supplied him at one of his refueling stops, and not storms in themselves, forced Captain Ross G. Hoyt down and led to his crash on his 8,500-mi. New York-Nome-New York flight, he reported to the War Department last week...