Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lighthouse keeper at Fastnet, Ire land, tells visitors that waves often go over the dome of his light, 150 ft. above the level of the frothy ocean. Whether this is true or not, ocean yachtsmen know that the 720-mi. race of the Royal Ocean Racing Club of England, from Cowes to Lonely Light at Fastnet and back again, is the most dangerous in the world. Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground...
Meanwhile dashing Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "Black Eagle of Harlem," who in 1924 cracked up in Flushing Bay en route to Liberia, announced new plans. On Sept. 15, said the Colonel, he will take off from Floyd Bennett Field on a 7,500-mi. non-stop flight to Aden, Arabia. He secured for the flight a Diesel-powered Bellanca, named it Patience...
...present "drive-out" system. Dealers, fetching Fords from the 32 U. S. assembly plants, grow weary of holding their new cars down to the breaking-in speed (30 m.p.h.), step on the gas and damage the motor. "Drive-out" deliveries will be sharply restricted in future. Deliveries of 200 mi. or more will go to the railroads...
...wind-up of the meet for the famed 100-mi. Thompson Trophy, Designer Z. D. Granville spunkily entered one of his stock model Gee Bee's, but every observer knew the winner was simply a choice of one of the three Wedell-Williams...
From a flying start in front of the grandstand Roscoe Turner and Jimmy Wedell vanished neck-&-neck into the haze. At the end of the first 10-mi. lap Turner roared around the home pylon in the lead. But when they popped out of the mist again, null was in front. Then Turner took the lead, held it to the end of the race...