Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron where flowers are dropped upon the city hospital for an injured officer of the Akron's staff. Thence the airship heads toward Cleveland, first dipping her nose in salute over the home of Assistant Secretary Ingalls at Chagrin Falls. The ship flies on to complete a 125-mi. circuit...
...economy. Specially designed Stinson tri-motors requiring only one pilot were bought from Errett Lobban Cord. Automobile gas was used for cruising, until aviation gas prices were forced down to 7½? per gal. Pilots were instructed to taxi on one motor instead of three. . . . Result : Cost per mi. was 37?, while other operators of tri-motors were having difficulty in getting under $1 per mi. At the end of the first year, September 1, Ludington had made 8,300 trips, about 28 per day; carried 66,000 passengers (average load 66%) without injury. In the whole year there...
Ludington Line is something of an annoyance to the Post Office Department with its offers to carry mail for 25? per mi., less than half of what is paid Eastern Air Transport...
...license from the F. A. L, brought the first racing Blériot to the U. S. and began to take one prize after another for first flights in various sections of the East. One prize of $10,000 he won for finishing first in a 186-mi. race from Boston to Nashua, N. H., Worcester, Providence and back to Boston...
...test the circulation winds with a straw. With utmost secrecy a Sunday magazine section was made up, printed in four colors. Very gingerly last week the first issue, called The Graphic Weekly, was sent out with the Sunday Tribune, but only to readers beyond a radius of 100 mi. from Chicago...