Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acting Police Commissioner John H. Alcock last week summoned, to a cooperation meeting at the University of Chicago, all police officials presiding within a radius of 50 mi. of the Loop...
Minister Johnson's most strenuous experience was a 50-mi. ride on a shaggy Chinese pony up a dry river bed. This reduced the Johnsonian bulk five pounds...
...cradle" to support the big dirigible, about to be deflated and put up for the winter. While at rest on its shoring, the Graf will be minutely inspected by dirigible experts, to estimate an airship's lifetime. The Grafs record for 1930: 155 flights covering 144,275 mi. Passengers carried, 6,278; mail, 2,200,000 pieces; freight, 12,166 Ib. Zeppelin officials claimed that revenue from passenger fares met the cost of gas, salaries, insurance, depreciation...
...James ("Valley") Smith, 30, was shot several times. One bullet struck his chin, entered his mouth, knocked out a tooth. When surgeons hunted the bullet, he explained: "I spit it out." Wire At Grand Rapids, Mich., Charles Garnett, Mike Eikelbery, and Everett Glazier were arrested for stealing 150 mi. of copper wire which they dismantled while the lines were charged with 144,000 volts. Near Middletown, N. Y. Fred Woods saw a deer drop dead while crossing a field, followed it, dropped dead by its side. Both had touched a broken high tension wire...
...position to operate a U. S.-Bermuda line. And if passengers are eventually to be carried, there are NYRBA'S 20-passenger Commodore flying boats. For its part, Imperial Airways has its new four-motored flying boat (first of a series) with a reported cruising range of 3,000 mi. But few airmen supposed that regular schedules could be undertaken before...