Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past three months William Zebulon Foster, Communist candidate for President, traveled 17,000 mi., addressed 70 meetings, was expelled from Zeigler, Ill., arrested in Los Angeles, Scranton, Lawrence, Mass. With 34 more speaking dates in 13 states to go, harried Candidate Foster last week collapsed in Chicago with an attack of angina pectoris. His doctor said, "It would be absolute suicide for him to continue his tour." Few days later, recuperating in his Bronx home, Candidate Foster wryly reminded reporters of a noteworthy fact: "Today I bear the unique distinction of being the only candidate supporting payment of the Bonus...
...Roosevelt special will cost the party $20,000 for its 8,000-mi. trip. As a train it was not in a class with the 14-car special which carried the Brown Derby on its western swing in 1928 and set the party back $43,000. Left behind in charge of national headquarters was Louis Mc Henry Howe, the Governor's confidential secretary. Mrs. Roosevelt was to join her husband aboard the Pioneer at Williams, Ariz, where she would be visiting Mrs. John C. Greenaway, a bridesmaid at her wedding 27 years...
Splitting the foam-flecked blue waters of the Mediterranean the S. S. Rex, pride of Italy's rejuvenated merchant marine. last week completed her engine trials in triumph. One of the two biggest ships built since the War (51,000 tons), the Rex tore over her 600-mi. course at an average speed of 28 knots, became unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic...
...Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's Nobel Laureate, speeding into the far north after a summer of climbing mountains ibex-wise, reached a point on Hudson Bay only 350 mi. from the North Magnetic Pole in time to take cosmic ray readings during the solar eclipse. His mountain-top observations in many latitudes had led him to suspect that cosmic rays are not pulsations from outer space, as Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks, but streams of electrons probably originating in Earth's atmosphere. The nearer the Equator, he observed, the less was the rays' intensity...
...privilege, they did nothing with it, flew in no events until the Amelia Earhart Trophy Race for the George Palmer Putnam Cup, for women exclusively, was reached. This race aroused much mirth among men pilots, caused much confusion to officials. The six starters were supposed to race 21 mi. around a 3½ mi. course. The first to start headed properly for the checkered turning pylon, then somehow got another idea and wandered off across country. Others mistook smokestacks for pylons, some found themselves on the 5-mile and 10-mile courses. One zoomed far aloft, another popped up from behind...