Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exposition before its end, she might well blow a salute to an old steam locomotive chuffing around the neighborhood. Old No. 999, the New York Central engine, which put thrills into the melodramas of the 1890's, in 1893 attained a record of 112½ m.p.h. for 1 mi. at Cuttenden, near Buffalo, N. Y.∙ Her engineer on that run, Charlie Hogan of Buffalo, was again at her old throttle last week...
Chairman Morgan's assigned objectives are as follows: 1) flood control works along the Tennessee River to even up its flow between a March torrent and an October trickle; 2) a 9-ft. channel for navigation from Knoxville to Paducah (650 mi.); 3) reforestation of marginal lands to prevent soil erosion and to supply the next generation with a timber crop; 4) decentralization of industry so that Tennessee Valley residents may live on farms while working in factories; 5) manufacture of fertilizer; 6) production and distribution of cheap hydroelectric power. For these purposes the Tennessee Valley Authority is permitted...
After a bloody battle, Japanese troops mashed their way into Miyun, 50 mi. from Peiping. At one point the Japanese advance reached Tungchow, only 13 mi. from Peiping's walls. To the east, Japanese troops were nearing Lutai, 40 mi. from Tientsin. Unaware of Ambassador Debuchi's statement, an official spokesman for General Kotaro Nakamura, commander of the Japanese garrison in Tientsin, announced...
...Chinese do not show signs of reasonableness, our army must necessarily continue beyond Peiping and Tientsin, and occupy Paotingfu [80 mi. from both] and points even further southward...
...short stories are changing. Yesterday's vogue, "the story with the snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems "strangely old-fashioned and unconvincing now." New styles call for front drive, less road clearance, a sharper-tilted wheel. These eight stories will all do 20 mi. to a gallon; two of them will go 75 at a pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian charges shows...