Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...population and geography of the Old World, circled by ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week and told his story...
...plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago...
...Norwegians. A diminishing spot on the peakside, he shot down into the valley, while his passage automatically formed the connections that told how fast he was going. Turning, he hurried to the nearest official to find out what his time had been. His top speed was 81.82 mi. per hour-the fastest a man has ever traveled on earth unassisted. Comparative speeds: of a sprinter at top speed, 21 mi. per hour; of a good racehorse on a mile and a quarter course, 36 mi. per hour; average speed of a homing pigeon, 60 mi. per hour; of a dummy...
Last week Dr. Michelson started his latest machinery. A ray of light shuttled through the tube for a course of 44 mi. It was a swift flash, less than 1-4,000th of a second in duration, was mechanically clocked with minute precision. Again Dr. Michelson made the light flit; and again. Repetitions, which must be averaged, will take weeks. Dr. Michelson waved goodbye to his assistants, motored to the comforts of his home in Pasadena...
Penny-A-Mile. In Detroit last week landed a Buhl Airsedan, powered by a crude-oil burning Packard Diesel engine. The plane, with three occupants, had flown 12,000 mi. over the western U. S. Total fuel cost, $108.20; average, .9? per mi...