Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week that both countries were heartily sick of their undeclared war. For months an international commission of delegates from the U. S., Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay has been dangling a peace plan before the combatants. Chief point was that each side should retire ten miles, leaving a 20-mi. neutral strip while final peace negotiations went on. Bolivia would not agree to this at first while she was advancing. Paraguay pooh-poohed the idea while she was capturing one jungle fort after another. Last week with both sides stalemated at Fort Saavedra, the 20 mi. of neutral ground seemed...
...Fred Spencer of Plainfield, N. J. and William ("Torchy") Peden of Vancouver. B. C.: one of the closest six-day bicycle races on record; by 14 points (for sprinting) from the teams of Norman Hill & William Grimm. Three other teams were in the tie for distance covered, 2,482 mi. and 9 laps. Month ago Peden and Jules Audy of Montreal who started the Manhattan race with Peden but was forced out by injuries after a fall, won a six-day race, in Chicago...
...sprang on Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., stock control of which is held by the Government of Britain's King George V, no tiger. In Teheran, with Reza Shah Pahlevi presiding, the Persian Cabinet denounced and cancelled Anglo-Persian's concession to exploit 500,000 sq. mi. of Persian oil land which was to have run until...
...waves. Theoretically those waves, which approach light waves in rapid brevity, should behave like light and travel only in straight lines. Theoretically such waves cannot bend around Earth's circumference and thus serve to carry messages long distances. But Inventor Marconi has been communicating with them across 180 mi. Says he: ". . . For some reason . . . the waves are deflected and travel further than they should according to theory...
...Angeles. . . . From St. Louis to Tulsa. . . . From Cincinnati to Chicago. Those would be average flights for U. S. airline passengers, according to figures released last week by the Department of Commerce. The Department found that 164.500 passengers carried in the third quarter of the year made trips averaging 275 mi. Average for last year: 229 mi...