Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only about 25% of the airways are passengers offered services of more than two round trips per day. On only about 1,200 mi. in scattered sections is there anything like high-frequency passenger service. Average passenger fare is 6.53¢ per mi. against 7.4¢ a year...
...transport safety record gave great promise at midyear but accidents finally rose from 91 in 1930 to 126 in 1931. Eleven pilots were killed, 26 passengers. Result: Transport planes flew 375,000 mi. per accident, against 400,000 the year before...
...swivel-chair administrator, Assistant Secretary Young traveled 30,000 mi. last year, boarded a train only twice. Mostly he journeys in the Department of Commerce Ford NS-1 which, equipped in club-car fashion with a desk and radio headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side...
...produce figures on operating costs to support their intention to charge lower fares than American Airways. Century lawyers got a delay while they flew to Los Angeles to confer with their directors. When they returned they would only venture an estimate that costs would be 35? to 40? per mi...
...first time in 1839. Most famous of its 16 jumps is Becher's Brook, a five-foot hedge in front of a five-and-a-half-foot ditch. The average odds on Grand National winners have been 15 to 1; their average time, 9 min., 55 sec. for 4½ mi...