Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pausing from his potato-peeling in San Quentin prison, Thomas Mooney said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month. "Not a chance," said Prisoner Mooney, on the eve of his sixteenth Christmas behind bars since he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. "Powers of business and politics will dictate Governor Rolph's decision. ... It looks as though I would...
...only 23,000 Chinese soldiers. Chinchow last week looked hard-that is if its 84,000 Chinese defenders would fight. Japanese scouting planes reported two separate systems of Chinese entrenchments defending Chinchow, complete with 58 pieces of artillery strategically placed. The Chinese "First Line," a series of trenches 20 mi. north of Chinchow, aimed to stop the Japanese advance at the Taling River Bridge on the Peiping-Mukden Railway. Should the juggernaut break through, the Chinese "Second Line" consisted of earthworks and entrenchments completely encircling Chinchow. In the city (Japanese estimated) were 8,000,000 rounds of ammunition which Chinese...
...Turin in a 35 h. p. Baby Avro. For such exploits he was temporarily dubbed "Sir Jockey." Recently he was accorded casual notice for two remarkable solo flights, both in a light Puss Moth: New York to Kingston, Jamaica; and Natal, Brazil to Bathurst, British Gambia, West Africa?2.000 mi. (TIME, Dec. 7). The last flight, in Editor Grey's opinion, "beats anything that has ever been done singlehanded by any aviator in the world...
...from the sea 100 mi. to Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia & Willamette Rivers, swam a small killer whale last autumn. There he was stranded. The press & populace of Portland, Ore. made much of him, christened him Ethelbert (TIME, Nov. 9). While the populace gaped and riflemen took pot shots, Ethelbert was discussed & debated by the Oregon Humane Society, which finally decided he would never get back to sea and therefore should be painlessly executed with dynamite. Before that could be done, one Edward O. Lessard and his son Joseph went out in a motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert...
...Interstate Commerce Commission has heard nothing but trouble for so long that it and the country were surprised last week by a large, positive request: For permission to build a new 860-mi. railroad from Denver to San Pedro, Calif...