Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gloomily the Commission pointed out that 27.7%. or 70,041 mi., of all U. S. steam railroad mileage was in the hands of the courts. "Poor financial structures and unwise surplus and dividend policies were chiefly responsible for the failure of some of these companies and were contributing factors in the failure of most of them," observed the Commissioners. Many a road could trace its grief to the fact that it was "handicapped from the beginning by financial structures overloaded with funded debt which was not reduced in good times." To assure more provident procedure in the future...
...argued that this native Congress does not represent any considerable number of the Indian people, Mr. Gandhi has secured the attendance of some 60,000 Congressmen at each normal meeting. They met last week in a swiftly-constructed bamboo and tent city near the village of Faizpur, 200 mi. outside Bombay, and the Mahatma laid aside for this occasion his recent preoccupation with the special problems of India's Untouchables and village industries. Mr. Gandhi now concerned himself and the Congress concerned itself with deciding whether to: 1) support or struggle against the New Indian Constitution; 2) support...
...gigantic explosion, throw out hundreds of thousands of times as much heat and light as before, sling off shells of hot gas, subside at last to something like their former status. Close study of a nova during 1935 showed three shells of gas expanding at 250, 320 and 650 mi...
...with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand ard Oil of California in 1931 on Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf, the Persian Government's cancellation of Anglo-Iran ian's great 500,000 sq. mi. concession in 1932. In making Seaboard's deal with Afghanistan he was assisted...
Significant in the agreement signed last week by Messrs. Hart & Clapp and Faiz Mohammed Khan was a proviso that the concession company must be entirely American. U. S. engineers have been well regarded in the East ever since they helped complete Iraq Petroleum's 1,200 mi. pipe line across Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean in 1935. More important than that, and perhaps most important for the concession to Seaboard, is the fact that Afghans are still skittish about British interference. European-minded King Amanullah was chased out in 1929 partly because he tried to force pants...