Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME regrets its 30-mi. error in oölogy, The limestone code was signed neither at Bloomfield nor Bloomington but at Bedford...
...Purse, at Belmont Park (L. I.), last week, was Bernard M. Baruch's two-year-old filly. Watch Her. At the barrier. Watch Her succeeded in throwing her jockey, Tony Pascuma. She ran riderless down the chute which cuts across the infield, then twice around the 1½-mi. track, and finally, before anyone could catch her, jumped a fence and started toward her stable. A mounted policeman caught her running toward the third jump on a nearby steeplechase course, brought her back to the post. By this time-32 minutes after the horses had first lined up-bookmakers...
...route from Orbetello lies northwest to Amsterdam (870 mi.), to Londonderry, Ireland (630 mi.), to Reykjavik, Iceland (930 mi.), southwest to Cartwright, Labrador (1,500 mi.), to Shediac, N. B. (800 mi.), to Montreal (500 mi.), to Chicago (870 mi.). Following'a three-day fete at the World's Fair the squadron will hop east to Port Washington, N. Y. on Long Island Sound. Unlike the South Atlantic flight, on which General Balbo left his planes with the Brazilian Government in barter for coffee, he will lead this squadron home again through the sky. The route, undetermined...
...South Atlantic flight, great twin-hulled affairs with the pilots' compartment housed in a bridge between the hulls. Mounted above the bridge are two Isotta-Fraschini engines in tandem, each driving with 800 h.p. a three-bladed propeller. Cruising speed: 137 m.p.h. Cruising range: 2,500 mi...
...hour it was over the ocean. For a day, a night, and another day the plane roared westward across the Atlantic like a perfectly aimed projectile to the eastern tip of Cuba, settled down at Camaguey, flew on to Havana. The nonstop distance over water, 4,500 mi., was second only to Herndon & Pangborn's record from Japan to the U. S. (4,800 mi...