Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesians hotly maintain that since they are a "self-governing colony" they have the equivalent of "dominion status," but Southern Rhodesia is not in the strictest sense a dominion. Scarcely any U. S. citizens and not many Mother Countrymen can bound Southern Rhodesia which lies 100 mi. inland, from the cast coast of Africa opposite Madagascar. It is bounded on the East by Portugese East Africa (Mozambique), on the South by the dominion of the Union of South Africa, on the West by the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland and on the North (of course) by Northern Rhodesia...
...chief city of Eastern Inner Mongolia is ancient, crumbling Jehol. To an invader Jehol is "the key to Peiping" (once Peking) with which it is connected by an old imperial highway 144 mi. long, just right for rumbling tanks and marching feet. Last week formidable units of the Japanese Army & Air Force moved upon Jehol from Mukden and the Chinese Press screeched, "Invasion!" Meanwhile at Tokyo the bespectacled Son-of-Heaven addressed a little homily on sheep-raising to the Governors of Japanese provinces. Referring to Japan's huge imports of wool from Australia, His Majesty ventured to suggest...
Perched on a mountainside 20 mi. from Denver is the old mining town of Central City (pop. 570). Last week Central City saw more excitement than it had known since the gold rush. Editor G. M. Laird cleaned his presses, published a special edition of the Register-Call. Tourists bought rusty miners' tools as souvenirs, posed for tintypes, stopped for drinks at a resurrected saloon. Bustled women and men in ancient beavers crowded the narrow street in front of Central City's opera house, watched Frederic McFarlane present the keys of the house to Chancellor Frederick Maurice Hunter...
When in 1922 Prime Minister King picked Sir Henry to take over the management of the 22,000 mi. of track (Grand Trunk Pacific, Grand Trunk, Canadian Northern, Transcontinental, Intercolonial) which had fallen into Canada's not welcoming hands, he seemed the only man for the job. His past record was filled with superb successes, his genial personality made him seem just the right man for a position which carried with it much contact with politicians. Last week Sir Henry's downfall was being discussed in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver. It was easy for one side...
Most impressive flights of the first week were made in one day by O'Meara and Martin Schempp of Pittsburgh. Taking off from East Hill, O'Meara flew 38 mi. to Endicott, N. Y., breaking the U. S. distance record of 10.9 mi. made last year by famed Hawley Bowlus (who last week was absent, recuperating from an attempted suicide at his California home). He also thought his barograph would show a new U. S. altitude mark of 5,000 ft. or more. Pilot Schempp sailed from the same starting point 65 mi. to New Milford...