Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denikin's, Kolchak's and Petlura's White armies, struck the naked Polish flank. The Poles began a retreat which did not halt until the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping...
Tarnished Plate. Just half a century ago the first train ran over the rails of the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad). The Nickel Plate is now a system of some 1,600 mi. The main part of the road consists of two great arcs, one curving between Buffalo and Chicago, the other between Detroit and St. Louis. An important branch runs to Peoria. Last year it carried 36,551.000 tons of freight, collected $36,551.000 in gross revenue...
...Gould railroad domain is known by the corporate title of Aroostook Valley Railroad Co. It consists of 36.60 mi. of 70-lb. tracks threading through the potato-rich Aroostook Valley, connecting with the Canadian Pacific at Washburn Junction and Bangor & Aroostook ("The Potato Road") at Washburn. Its stations include Sweden. Adaline, Caribou, Bugbee, Carson and Presque Isle Junction, near where dwells Mr. Gould. Freight comprises 85% of its business, there being 140 potato depots holding 5.000.000 bu. of potatoes along its right-of-way. The road is electrified, buying its power from a station...
Year and a half ago Napoleon ("Nap") Verville of Edmonton, Alberta, had ten toes and a desire to see whether Eskimos were living on Melville Island, 1,500 mi. due north of Edmonton. Last week he was back in Edmonton with seven toes and an exciting report of hardy misadventure...
...called on his students to follow through. "You were playing a game then," he said. "For the rest of your lives play the reality." He promised time off on Election Day (Nov. 8) for all who are eligible to vote, free transportation for those who ballot in Cleveland (35 mi...