Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conferences in the White House? Was it the peasants of Idaho, Iowa or Ohio that were in armed revolt? What was the meaning of "controlled inflation?" Could the U. S. Government control it better than the French or Ger- man Governments had done? All these things occurring 4,000 mi. away were of vital interest to Europe. Near at hand there was one man who in two brief scenes made things much clearer: U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. Geneva. To the interminable arguments of the League's Disarmament Conference came white-haired Mr. Davis with...
Persia's wild-riding, self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi never denied that the original Anglo-Persian concession was not factually binding. One of his predecessors, paunchy Shah Muzzafar-uddin, in 1901 signed away Persian oil rights to 500,000 sq. mi. of territory for $20,000. Canceling the concession last November Reza Shah announced as his excuse that a modern Persian Government must not be held to acts committed "prior to the establishment of a constitutional regime," i. e., the Government of Reza Shah...
Back in her hangar, the Macon was still the property of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. Not until she has flown 84 hours, of which she flew 13 more two days later, proven that she can make 80 m.p.h., can cruise 10,000 mi. will the Navy accept...
...want to win the Boston A. A. Marathon-26 mi. over macadam and concrete roads from Hopkinton to a finish-line on Exeter Street-a good way is to finish eighth the year before. Jimmy Henigan was eighth in 1930, winner the next year; Paul De Bruyn was eighth in 1931, winner a year ago. In eighth place last year was a short, prudent Pawtucket, R. I. mill worker named Leslie Samuel Pawson who trains for marathons not by drinking beer like many of his confreres but by total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, long runs around Pawtucket when...
When the Leonid meteors coursed through the upper air last November, Astronomer Olivier had 14 scattered observers chart the meteor trails. Comparison of data showed the meteors traveling 90 to 142 m. p. h. The faster ones began to glow from atmospheric friction when 84 mi. from earth's surface. At 54 mi. they burned themselves out. Two of the meteors spattered luminescent trains behind them, which Astronomer Olivier's men saw floating 50 to 60 mi. aloft. Wind drove one train upward at an angle of 55 degrees and a speed of 142 m. p. h. Wind...