Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruled by hairy, fur-clad Mongol princes under the nominal overlordship of China's Nanking Government. Last month from every corner of Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces the princes of Mongolia left their herds of horses, camels and sheep to ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts (tents) on the plain, capped themselves with full-dress peacock plumes and crowded into the council chamber. There under...
...construction gang knew it, their work was halted by President Atleroury of Pennsylvania R. R. and his chief competitor, President William-son of New York Central. And the laborers were probably equally ignorant of the fact that the injunction was aimed not at the little 12-½-mi. Montour R. R. spur but at Andrew William Mellon and his brother Richard, who together own working control of Pittsburgh Coal Co. As part of an extensive rehabilitation program, whose object was to restore dividends after an eight-year lapse, Pittsburgh Coal was building this spur to connect with water transportation...
...droned on, over Ohio and Indiana farmlands, true on its course of blinking beacons and whining radio signals. At 8:46 p. m. the ground station at Chicago heard the pilot's laconic "Okay.". . . A few minutes later country folk near Chesterton, Ind., 50 mi. southeast of Chicago, were frightened by a terrific explosion overhead. They ran from their houses to see No. 23 gyrating crazily in the sky. its tail broken off. With its cabin lights ablaze, the plane spun to earth, whipped off the tops of a clump of trees, crashed on its back with another earsplitting...
...dropped was a pilot named Victor Evceyef. Swaddled in heavy clothes with an oxygen mask over his face and a parachute over his stern, Evceyef went up with a comrade from Moscow Airdrome. Mile after mile the plane climbed, into atmosphere -34° F. At 4½ mi. Pilot Evceyef jumped. Instead of opening his 'chute, he plummeted for more than two minutes until he was only 500 ft. above the ground. Then he yanked his ripcord. Said he afterward: ''The jolt was so great that for a moment everything was dark. Then the sun shone green...
...honor, President Justo stepped aboard his special train at Buenos Aires and sped out to the seaport of Mar del Plata (where coast guardsmen last January rescued the President from drowning). There he stepped aboard the Argentine dreadnought Moreno and she rolled up toward Rio de Janeiro 1,500 mi. north...