Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been to Berlin, met President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Briining, departed advising them to "keep a stiff upper lip." At Rogart in Scotland he had rented a farmhouse on the Duke of Sutherland's estate, rested for a month. Prime Minister MacDonald motored the 120 mi. from Lossiemouth to pay him a two-day visit. Later Mr. Stimson had to deny formally that they had discussed War debt revision...
...dead centre of U. S. population as revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically as 39° 3' 45" North, 87° 8' 6" West...
Last fortnight the first gasoline flowed from several big Oklahoma refineries directly into St. Paul-Minneapolis. This line is backed by Barnsdall Corp., Continental Oil Co., Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., Skelly Oil Co., Pure Oil Co.. and Phillips Petroleum Co., is the longest gasoline pipeline (1,500 mi...
Anita, 22-year-old daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, swam the length of the Bosporus (18 mi.) in five hours, while her father fed her chocolate, cheered her with phonograph music from a small boat...
...where they had their first dogsled ride and where, in the schoolhouse the Colonel made a speech to the populace of eight whites and several hundred Eskimos, the Lindberghs headed south to Nome. Mrs. Lindbergh radioed ahead asking that flares and bonfires be prepared for their landing, but 100 mi. short of Nome they ran into soupy fog, sat down at Shishmaref south-west of Kotzebue Sound to wait for clear weather. (LINDYS LOST IN ARCTIC SEA headlined the catchpenny New York Evening Graphic.) Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety Bay, 21 mi. away...