Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read of Chinese feats of heroism, produced some exciting stories, mostly at Shanghai. Best was the Shanghai story of how "General Teng Ti-mei and 360 soldiers wearing only summer uniforms of thin cotton had made an heroic last stand in sub-zero weather" on Mount Takushan, 125 mi. southeast of Mukden, since the middle of December...
Much easier to operate than a steam engine is an electric locomotive. Fortnight ago Pennsylvania Railroad completed electrification of the 91 mi. between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Four crack passenger trains between the two cities, each making a roundtrip, are now electrically- drawn. Eventually all passenger trains on the run, then all freight trains, will have electric locomotives. Electrification of the lines as far as Wilmington will be completed by February but work on the Wilmington-Washington branch has been postponed...
...long drive (307½ mi.) from London to Gretna Green, traditional goal of British elopers, Michael and Catherine have a lot to think about. She had been married to a War neurotic whose insane jealousy had finally driven her away. The night she left he had shot himself; she still felt responsible. When she was beginning to get over it she met Michael and they fell in love. Before they had progressed very far she discovered that his possessiveness was developing into jealousy too much like her first husband's. She could not risk another tragedy: they broke...
...Boston, last summer furnished Mr. Zemurray with a grandson at 56. His son, Samuel Jr., last year played tackle on Tulane's football team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research...
...Avions Farman, French plane builders, have followed Professor Piccard's suggestions for the secret construction of a sealed cabin plane which is supposed to travel 450 m.p.h. at 10 mi. altitude...