Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Antarctic continent is a pie-shaped disk 5,000,000 sq. mi. in area, circled by a white crust of mountains 10,000 ft. high. It may contain valuable minerals or oil. Great Britain has a generally recognized claim to two segments of the pie. British Explorers James Clark Ross (1902), Robert Falcon Scott, (1902), Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1919) claimed their discoveries in the name of the British sovereign...
Transoceanic Ophthalmoscopy. The travelers far from home need not feel entirely at the mercy of foreign doctors, even if their ailment is something requiring microscopic examination. One Ernestino Dodd of Buenos Aires was in Berlin when his eyes went bad. A photograph of his retina was radioed 7,200 mi. to his own, trusted specialist, who within the hour called back advising his Patient Dodd to have an operation immediately...
...Development of the Mississippi as the north-south trunk line and the "modernization" of its tributaries, to create a 9,000-mi. water transportation system in the heart of the U. S. Of this, 3,800 mi. now have a channel six feet deep or better, leaving 5,000 mi. for U. S. development Chief tributaries for improvement: Illinois (Chicago-to-the-Gulf route), Missouri (high into the wheat country), Arkansas (west to the oil fields), Tennessee (through the coal lands). Time limit: five years...
...Addition of 1,000 mi. to the existing 746 mi. of intracoastal canals. Time: less than ten years...
Ford Tour. Two dozen of the 29 planes which started the 4,800-mi. National Air Reliability Tour of 1929 at Detroit, reached their Detroit goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying...