Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese barracks with their machine guns, then entrenched themselves in nearby cornfields over which four Japanese planes circled around & around, bombing the Chinese until Japanese re-enforcements rushed up to relieve the garrison. Meanwhile wounded Chinese had set off in rickshaws to receive treatment at Peiping, only a 14-mi. run for sturdy Chinese rickshaw coolies. Several of these wounded Peace Preservation Corps heroes were asked by correspondents. "But why did you turn against Yin? Aren't you and he supposed to be pro-Japanese...
...Alpine circuit was a dangerous 352-mi. triangle crossing a 3,000-ft. range to Thun, thence over the 13,000-ft. Jungfrau to Bellinzona, the last lap over 11,000-ft. Scheerhorn Peak and back to Zurich. The German three-plane patrol made it in 58 min. 52.7 sec. of flying time and the Czechs, flying not quite up-to-date Avias were second in little over an hour. Their elapsed time, however, was less than that of the Germans. Meet crowds showed a tendency to cheer the Czechs, jeer the Germans...
...crew of three from Santiago, Chile, radioed it was circling in a rainstorm over the field at Cristobal, C. Z., where it was scheduled to transfer its passengers to a northbound Pan-American Clipper. No more was heard from the Sikorsky. Next day its wreckage was found 20 mi. west of Cristobal, all on board presumably lost...
...same story he had told when police arrested him the next; morning at his poultry farm at Alton, N. H., where he retired after the Speer inquest in 1934. He had spent the night of May 25 with his wife at the Eagle Hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 mi. from Greenfield. He had not worn a long coat that night and did not own one. District Attorney David Keedy called a Keene filling station proprietor to testify that Mr. Elder, wearing a coat "down to his calves," had bought eight gallons of gasoline from him at seven...
First Race. The America's Cup goes to the yacht which first wins four races. Races are 30 mi. each, alternating between 1) a straight course into the wind & back and 2) a course around an equilateral triangle with ten-mile sides. Last week, after spectators had delayed the start 45 min., Ranger and Endeavour crossed the line, with Endeavour a length ahead but Ranger well to windward. The breeze was light and the boats' job was to work 15 mi. into it, round a buoy and run back before the wind to the line they had just...