Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once drove the distance in 4 hr. 20 min. in a Ford from a small town 40 mi. north of San Francisco. I always drive to Lake Tahoe in not over five hours...
...Francisco to Lake Tahoe is entirely erroneous. A very comfortable trip, including time on ferry from San Francisco to Berkeley, and a stop for luncheon or dinner on the way, is eight hours. Five or six hours if in a hurry and no stop for meal. Distance only 220 mi., splendid highway, but ferry kills valuable time...
Last week a strange squadron of cavalry clattered into El Paso, Tex. Its 180 horses and 200 men rode in trucks and trailers. They had just completed a tedious 630-mi. trip across the scorching Big Bend Desert to Terlingua and were returning to be reviewed by Major General Frank R. McCoy. The officers in charge felt they had proved the value of motorized cavalry travel to save the energy of men & mounts until the scene of battle is reached, just as racehorses are vanned to meets. The actual ''marching" time was three days; on foot it would...
...feel badly about shooting them." Nevertheless museum men predicted there would be real rivalry between the Davisons for the first kill, since they meant to shoot only at "Shambas," vicious-tempered outlaws.* Mrs. Davison's letter described their airplane flight up the Nile's twisting 2,500-mi. length to meet the Johnsons. After an hour aloft, they fervently wished themselves back at Cairo. "I give you my word " wrote Mrs. Davison, "it was worse than any dream of torment Dante could ever have conceived. The heat stood a solid wall even ... at 10,000 feet...
Trouble came partly from the fact that the company's coal sales have been cut into by greater use of natural gas in the West, but chiefly from the fact that, lying 1,000 mi. east or west of good steel markets, some 65% of its normal steel business has been the manufacture of rails. Since railroads have not yet begun buying rails, Colorado Fuel & Iron did not feel the force of the last three months' pick-up in the business...