Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...territorial expansion. Last week he flustered the State Department, set Mexican officials to guffawing, by reviving his twelve-year-old proposal that the U. S. purchase Lower California from Mexico.- To the 58,338 desolate square miles thus acquired he would add another 10,000 sq. mi. clipped from the Mexican State of Sonora and tacked on to his own Arizona to straighten its southern boundary. By" his resolution the President would be ''respectfully requested to open negotiations" for this international deal...
Last summer Boulder Dam advocates proposed that the U. S. settle its dispute with Mexico over the waters of the Colorado River (which empties 80 mi. below the border) by the purchase of Lower California. With the money she got from the sale, they contended, "Mexico could settle not only U. S. claims but also all her debts to Britain, France and every other country." Big Navy men, who have repeatedly charged that Japan covets Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of Lower California as a base from which to attack the U. S., warmed to any proposition which would...
Chesapeake & Ohio (13,000 mi.) would add to its Nickel Plate, Erie and Pere Marquette, control of Lehigh Valley (to be purchased for $35,000,000 from Pennsylvania which would retain trackage rights). This system's other lines would include Bessemer & Lake Erie (from U. S. Steel Corp.), Wheeling & Lake Erie, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
Pennsylvania (17,000 mi.) would retain its control of Wabash, Norfolk & Western and Detroit, Toledo & Ironton...
Still another subway, parallel to and west of the present units, is being built by the municipal government. Its completion will bring the total trackage of the three systems up to 688 mi., the largest city transportation network in the world. Without its vast, rumbling traction arteries which sell 4,210,000 rides a day, New York would be paralyzed. Hence few New Yorkers were not interested, last week, in a plan proposed by Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer of the Transit Commission for the city to buy back, for $489,804,000, operating control of all overhead and underground transportation...