Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Word came that afternoon from Haverstraw, N. Y., 30 mi. up the Hudson, that a freighter had run aground in the mud and that the captain and six of the crew had fled. Customs officials hurried to Haverstraw, found the rest of the "Texas Ranger's" crew in jail for vagrancy. The officials boarded the boat. In the hold they found 25,000 cases of Canadian whiskey worth more than $1,000,000. The vessel had been cleverly disguised to resemble the Texas Ranger even down to the funnel paint and the insignia...
...contrasted happily with eight previously bungled attempts. Up, up it sailed until it became a tiny silver bubble, then a pinpoint hanging in the sky. After about two hours the ground station received a radio flash from the Stratostat: it had passed Piccard's world record of 10 mi., was still climbing! Another three hours, and the U. S. S. R. had pulled itself up to 11.8 mi., was ready to come down. The descent went as smoothly as the ascent, the U. S. S. R. landing lightly in a meadow about 60 mi. from Moscow. Fully half...
...microwaves approach heat waves in shortness and light waves in behavior. They can be focused as a beam and sent in any direction. Theoretically they should be perceptible only just beyond the visible horizon of the sending station. Senator Marconi has made them register over a distance of 180 mi., or nine times his sending station's visible horizon, and has been able to communicate with them clearly and powerfully at five times the horizon. They register beyond mountains. Whether they bend over the mountain tops or go right through the mountains, he last week declared...
Another mystery is why the waves fade at times. Yet, said he, "I once had fading on an experiment of 100 mi. with long waves, and none on a 6,000-mi. transmission. You can't tell...
...summer of 1822 Fort Mackinac, Michigan Army and fur-trading post, was a rough, brawling, drunken community of about 5,000 Indians, French-Canadians and half-breeds spending the proceeds of their winter fur catches. Only doctor within a 300-mi. radius was William Beaumont, an Army surgeon who meticulously recorded in a diary every medical tittle and jot he performed. For June 6, 1822, the entry, now a precious incunabulum in the history of U. S. Medicine, reads...