Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next, popping into an airplane, Dictator Mussolini flew to Amseat on the Egyptian frontier. There, where a 200-mi. barbed-wire Egyptian boundary fence begins its southern sweep, he inaugurated the Balbo-built "Greatest Highway in Africa," 1,200 miles of macadamized strategic coastal road, over which Il Duce soon would drive back westward to Tripoli, the colonial capital. Before setting out he first inspected elaborate underground fortifications along the coast and flew from Tobruk to Derna, a name stirring to every historically-minded U. S. Marine...
These were the first words addressed to an Australian farmer last week by two travelers whom he encountered in the fastnesses of the MacPherson Range, 60 mi. south of Brisbane. The travelers, named Binstead and Proud, were the only survivors of one of the most shocking crashes in Australia's air history. Near them was the charred wreckage of the plane containing the bodies of its two pilots and two other passengers. Farther away lay the corpse of another passenger who had plunged to his death off a cliff while trying to find help in the dark. Travelers Binstead...
...concert will begin at 8 o'clock. The program is as follows: "Awake Thou Wintry Earth" by Bach; "O Domine Jesu Christi" by Des Pres; "Fire, Fire, My Heart" by Morley; two Italian folk songs, "Canto di Caccia" and, "Tu Mi Vuoi"; "Master, Ades Florum" by Carter; "Der Jager Abschied" and "Jagdlied" by Mendelsohn; "The Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov" by Moussorgsky; two choruses and a ballet from "Orpheus" by Gluck; "At Father's Door," a Russian folk song; and "The March of the Peers" from "Iolanthe" by Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Engen of Salt Lake City; the national amateur ski-jumping tournament: on Ecker Hill 25 mi. east of his home town; by jumping 245 ft. for a new U. S. record...
...crow flies between New Orleans and Kansas City the distance is 650 mi. From Kansas City to Port Arthur, Tex. it is 625 mi., from Port Arthur to New Orleans 250 mi. Near the centre of this big southwestern triangle is a man-made lake near Hot Springs, Ark. called Catherine. On an island in the lake is Couchwood, the spacious summer home of Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, onetime (1932-34) RFC director, chair-man of Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. and Arkansas' richest citizen. The four C's in Harvey Couch's book read: "Courage, Confidence, Concentration...