Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago smart, genial Whitefoord Russel Cole's Louisville & Nashville applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a reduction in coach fare from 3.6? per mi. to 2? A few Western roads (TIME, Oct. 23). Mobile & Ohio, struggling in receivership between two rivers and five competitors, and Atlanta & West Point R. R. followed suit. Meantime, the Southern was experimenting on branch lines with a 1½? coach fare. This line found that with base fares cut more than one-half, net earnings nevertheless increased appreciably. With these heartening precedents, more than 1,000 lines west of the Mississippi...
...same time, Southeastern and Western roads dropped the 50% Pullman surcharge and reduced first-class (chair and sleeping car) fare from 3.6? a mi. to 3?. Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
...port wine, they flew to the Azores. Thence they zigzagged via the Canary Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane: "Lindbergh's Property. Trespassing Forbidden"; and Cape Verde Islands to the tiny British colony where they now broiled. Ahead of them lay a 1,875-mi. salt water hop to Natal, Brazil, the last ocean-crossing of their homeward trek. Somewhere near the Equator they might pass within striking distance of Germany's seadrome, the S. S. Westphalen. The heat and Mrs. Lindbergh's homesickness combined to increase their impatience...
Monstrous headseas washed roaring against the S. S. Manhattan off the Grand Banks, one evening last week. Overhead howled an 85-mi. nor'wester. Only three passengers were hardy enough to be aboveboard. One was Queena Mario, small, vivacious soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Another was her pet marmoset, Vibrato. The third was a Mrs. Florence Garson of Staten Island...
...atom. In Pasadena last winter he explained to a respectful listener named Albert Einstein how this picture accounted for cosmic rays (TIME, Jan. 23). One dilemma his picture did not resolve. The observed rate of recession of the farthest visible parts was so fast (12,000 to 15,000 mi. per sec.) that it made the universe seem unreasonably young. Last week, backed by intricate mathematics and Harvard Observatory's mass of photometric records, plump, bespectacled Abbé Lemaitre and his collaborator, Harvard's sprightly, peripatetic Astronomer Harlow Shapley, stepped forth at Cambridge with the shrapnel universe dramatically...