Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mi. Valley...
...your June 5 issue under Transportation, subhead "Green Ball," you state that Philadelphia & Western's streamlined railway equipment operates at 50 m.p.h. These cars were designed for speeds of 80 m.p.h. on level tangent track and have actually been clocked at 88 m.p.h. They make the 14-mi. journey between terminals at Philadelphia and Norristown in 16 minutes including one stop and two slowdowns en route...
TIME erred in applying the word "watershed" to the industrial area, including 15 states bounded by Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina, which the Tennessee Valley Authority is designed to serve and which was officially measured by President Roosevelt at 640,000 sq. mi...
...with a majority interest in the Nickel Plate-the famed New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, built in the 1880's at so great a cost per mile that financial wags of the period said that its rails were nickel plated. In 1916, the Nickel Plate (with 523 mi. of track connecting Buffalo with Chicago) was not in the forefront of railroads. It was a second-grade property, far from profitable. The New York Central was glad to sell its majority interest...
...plane broke. Dizzy and nauseated from breathing gas fumes. Pilot Mattern set his ship down at the coal mining settlement of Belovo, so groggily that it cracked the stabilizer. He lost a day and a half there before mechanics, flown from Novosibirsk, completed repairs. For the treacherous 2,600-mi. hop from Khabarovsk across the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Bering Sea to Nome. Pilot Mattern steeled himself with plenty of rest...