Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large map of Indiana a sharp eye can pick out Santa Claus (pop.: 100) in the northern end of Spencer County about 3 mi. east-by-south of the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial and the same distance north of the Southern Ry. tracks. Santa Claus consists of one rough street, a few frame houses and a general store in the back room of which is a post office. The hamlet's time of fame is Christmas, when to it comes all the childish mail addressed to Santa Claus. Also several thousand persons ship its postmaster their Christmas cards...
...hrer-Foreign correspondents are prone to make too much of the fact that Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, that he has never established his right to German citizenship. As a matter of fact Adolf Hitler was born just 62 mi. due east of Munich in the Austrian frontier town of Braunau and always considered himself more Bavarian than Austrian. Fascist Hitler discourages reference to his early life, not because there was anything shameful about it, but merely because it was not sufficiently romantic for Der Führer, the Leader of the Nazis. His father was a customs inspector. Young...
...Broome County, N. Y. to its duck-teeming delta at Havre de Grace on Chesapeake Bay, it flows through a busy industrial district. Neither long nor deep, it has no ships moving up & down it; work for the Susquehanna means power plants, not navigation. In the last 33 mi. of its course three great hydro-electric systems derive their energy from its waters, plants capable of producing more horsepower than any other hydro-electric development...
...Omaha, its terminals, or to the mining districts of northern Michigan, which it reaches from Toledo with its Ann Arbor Railway (99% owned). But "somewhere" to a railroad is either a great seaport or the gateway of a populous, raw-producing hinterland. The Wabash developed a system 2,500 mi. long, with 4,500 mi. of track, 701 locomotives, 26,000 freight and 411 passenger cars. Last week this whole property, $358,000,000 in assets, passed out of stockholders' hands into receivership. The railroad industry saw its first major bankruptcy since Depression, looked on glumly as the stockmarket...
Fulcrum of the I. C. C.'s five-party plan, Wabash has had a strenuous career in its 94 years of operation. In 1877 it was reorganized after its original 12-mi. line from Meredosia to Morgan, Ill. had grown to 678 miles. Twelve years later it was again reorganized but escaped receivership. Twenty-six years of financial peace followed, ended abruptly in 1915. The company went into receivership, was sold under foreclosure for $18,000,000 cash and assumption of underlying mortgages...