Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each time the storm of a great Japanese offensive breaks in North China it is preceded by a gentle shower of propaganda leaflets. Month ago the shower fell on Miyun, 50 mi. northeast of Peiping (TIME, May 1). Last week a Japanese plane zoomed through a wild anti-aircraft barrage over Peiping itself. U. S. Minister Nelson Trusler Johnson hopped out of bed into a yellow dressing gown to peer at the plane through binoculars, examine one of the first leaflets...
During the week the Japanese aircraft carrier Kamoi anchored off Taku, only 37 mi. from Tientsin. Swarms of fighting planes took off to reconnoitre. Town after town fell before the Japanese advance. Chinese commanders could do little but make brave statements. Cried Premier Wang Ching-wei of the Nationalist Government...
...William Feldhusen, Stapleton, N. Y. garage mechanic, in his Class C outboard motorboat Miss Staten Island: the sixth annual 132¼ mi. Albany-to-New York race; in 3 hr. 15 min. 22 sec. Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left...
...those rural mobsters who, week before, had abducted and outraged Judge Charles Clark Bradley (TIME, May 8). Nearly 100 earth-stained farmers were held prisoner in a military stockade outside town. Governor Herring had just promised to lift martial law in Plymouth County when at Des Moines, 160 mi. away, fresh farm trouble sprouted to plague the good name of Iowa. Meeting in the cattle pavilion of the State Fair Grounds, the Farmers' Holiday Association, under rough-spoken Milo Reno, raucously voted another farm strike May 13. That it. like last year's, would end in violence...
...pocket, packed his grips and flew from Beirut to Marseilles, after months of bickering, threatening, appeals to the League of Nations, the new-agreement provides: 1) The period of the concession is 60 years from 1933. 2) Area of the concession is reduced from 500,000 sq. mi. (about five-sixths of Persia) to 250,000 sq. mi. until 1938, 100,000 sq. mi. thereafter. 3) The company loses its exclusive right to pipelines in Persia.* 4) The company shall pay four shillings a ton on oil sold in Persia or exported, and ?225,000 in taxes during the first...