Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jupiter's Spot. Abbe Moreux. director of Bourges Observatory at Bourges, France, after looking at Jupiter for a month, announced that he had found another red spot on the planet. The patch is slowly growing bigger. He thinks it may be an immense frozen continent, 30,000 mi. long, 7,000 mi. wide. Other astronomers have seen these spots before, have not been able to find out what they were because they did not possess strong enough telescopes to study them. Just before the War a vivid spot was noted, was interpreted by the superstitious as a sign of bloodshed...
...light, shows the different colors of the spectrum which compound it. He found with few exceptions a uniform shift toward the red from the nearest to the farthest nebula, 75 million light years away. For every million-light-years increase in distance from the earth, he discovered a 100-mi.-per-sec. increase in the speed of receding stars. Occasional exceptions of a shift toward the blue, he said, were caused by individual motions of the nebulae, which may be either away from or toward the earth, contrary to the general recessive movement...
...American Airways. As everyone expected, Pan American Airways, the sole bidder, last week was awarded the airmail contract from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana to Santos, Brazil-3,275 mi. The rate: $2 per mi. for 800 Ib. of mail; $1 a pound per 1,000 mi. for excess load...
...last week (for the first time) saw it won by his own company's entry, a Ford 7-AT monoplane powered by one Wasp and two Wright J-6 engines. The winning pilot, Harry L. Russell, took the lead of the 18 contestants early in the 4,900 mi. race, gradually increased it through the two weeks of flying, finished the circuit at Detroit with 58,575 points. Until the final leg, Pilot Russell was always threatened by Waco's John Livingston and Arthur Davis whose company won the 1928 air tour. Pilot Livingston's score...
...took leave of absence two years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...