Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because fewer ducks are winging South each season, the Foundation has been inclined to discount the importance of overshooting, modern firearms, lax game law enforcement as causes of duck decline. Last July it sent researchers on a 3400-mi. jaunt through the heart of North America's chief wild duck nursery-the prairies of North Dakota and Montana in the U. S., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta in Canada-to find out what was happening to the ducks before they started South. The surveyors found the region, from a duck's viewpoint, in a sorry state. Where ducks once...
...assigns regularly to nature stories or, by analogy, pictures with leading men like Johnny Weissmuller or Max Baer. For Eskimo, he and a staff of 42 assistants including Chef Emile Ottinger of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel spent $1.500,000 and nine months on location at Teller, Alaska, 100 mi. below the Arctic Circle. Less courageous than they appear to be in the picture, the Eskimo extras whom Van Dyke hired at $5 per day ran away after seeing their first cinema. It showed a fight and they thought that if Director Van Dyke had been as sympathetic...
...peaceful days before locomotives chuffed clear across the land, no one found it awkward that every sizeable town had it? own time, set by the local noon. Visitors who journeyed 40 or 50 mi. from home by horse & buggy usually remained at their destination long enough not to mind shifting their watches a few minutes. But as the railroad network grew, the time situation became grotesque. The railroads had no less than 49 different time systems. Some stations exhibited three clocks, one for eastbound trains, one for westbound trains, one for local time. Drummers covering southern New England carried watches...
Where the shallow, sandy River Platte debouches into the muddy Missouri is Plattsmouth, a neat little Nebraska town of 3,800 population, 21 mi. south of Omaha. Business used to be good in Plattsmouth. Cass County farmers were near enough to the city to diversify and the Burlington Railroad shops always took care of 400 or 500 men. Then for economy the Burlington began to consolidate the shops with its bigger ones in Lincoln. Some of the men followed the shops. Families doubled up and merchants cut down. Depression settled over Plattsmouth like a wintry fog. Six months ago when...
...graced the seven-hour ceremonies preceding the Settle flight last August which was brought to a quick and ignominious finish in a Chicago railroad yard by a defective valve (TIME, Aug. 14). Since then Soviet stratospherists had made the chances of a new record harder by ascending to 11.8 mi. (TIME...