Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from all Russia's 164,000,000. Last week the bee smartly stung the bear, with the most ambitious Government decree in history. It divided all Russia into three Zones. Zone No. 1 includes all Russia's ticklish spots: the big cities, big industrial centres, a 62-mi. strip along the western border and the chief cities along the eastern border. In these, the hide and the vital organs of Russia, only certified loyalists may live. "Undesirable'' Russians must move out. They may be allowed to settle in Zone No. 2, which includes all other cities...
...trains and rushed up the coast after the withdrawing Japanese, reoccupying village after village. And before the coast troops' withdrawal could be interpreted as a grand Chinese victory, the Japanese right wing suddenly commenced a slashing inland attack on the Chinese troops of General Ho Ying-ching. 60 mi. from Peiping. The latter dug in against airplanes and siege guns and fought like alley cats. After an eight-day battle that cost China 4,600 admitted casualties, Japan occupied Nantienmen. For the first time Japanese officers admitted that Peiping might be the next objective, but insisted that no such...
...London. This month he was to have succeeded his brother, Sir John Maitland Salmond, as Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Died. Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark, her husband Daniel, their sons Rowland, 10, and Dean, 7; by their own hands (carbon monoxide); on a country road 15 mi. south of Minneapolis. The crash of Wilbur Burton Foshay's Northwestern utilities empire in 1929 brought him & associates, two years later, Federal charges of using the mails to defraud. After an eight-week trial. Mrs. Clark, only woman member of the jury, hung the case by singly holding...
...reduced wing span which makes its landing speed more than two miles a minute, a lower safety factor than is permitted in Great Britain. The S. B.-Rolls-Royce ship which won the last Schneider Trophy for Great Britain landed at about 90 m. p. h. At Orbetello, 60 mi. from Rome, 100 aviators are being drilled, trained and watched like crack athletes at the Scuola di Navigazione Aerea (long distance school). The airmen are the pilots, navigators & crews of 24 seaplanes which spade-bearded General Italo Balbo will lead late this month to the Chicago World's Fair...
...same day on Mount Scifarello in Calabria 400 mi. to the south, rangers of the Fascist Forest Militia ended a search for a French Air-Orient liner which disappeared last fortnight en route from Corfu, Greece to Rome. The rangers found two men and a woman, nearly dead of cold, huddled in the snow-covered wreckage of the plane which also sheltered the bodies of the two pilots, three other passengers...