Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small to take any chances, the tiny Neutral Republic of Andorra (18 mi. long, 17 mi. wide) declared martial law and mobilized its sturdiest citizens when a few "foreign workmen" (Spanish) struck last week on a small hydraulic...
...suffers from insomnia" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929) Since 1929 Prince George and Edward of Wales, chums in revelry, have sailed, golfed and danced their way around South America without seasickness, quaffed many a beaker without indigestion and stayed up so late at Fort Belvedere (their base of operations 22 mi. from London) that insomnia is out of the question. Last week, smart Prince George performed one of his rare public acts, set literary London by the ears, stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy. Taking as his text what he called "sex novels" Prince George announced...
...model airline operated by Eastern Air Transport and Transamerican Airlines. For a $5 fare, to demonstrate standard airline practice, the planes carried passengers around a 60-mi. circuit to the Ford, Wayne County, Grosse He and Walker airports...
...Lieut. Edwin J. Brown of the Coast & Geodetic Survey grasped the switch of an electrical device under his freight-car shelter. From the device ran 7 mi. of wire, which dipped into a mile-long line of steel cases buried in the limestone quarries. There were 5,000 steel cartridges. They contained altogether 220 tons of dynamite. Lieut. Brown at 3:02 p. m. was to set off the mightiest single controlled blast that man has ever dealt with...
...best. When the cedar forests of the South began to be exhausted the pencil-makers frantically bought cedar fences and log cabins but now the West's cedar stands, although inferior in quality, are considered adequate. A good pencil could draw a line from 35 to 70 mi. long before it was worn out. One of the best of recent pencil years was 1927. Lead Pencil Institute reported 6,100,000 gross of pencils valued at $14,477,000 sold that year. In 1930 sales of $11,763,000 were realized on 5,386,000 gross. Imports are fractional...