Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water. As evidence that modern high explosives are not to be tampered with, Dr. Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins exhibited a lantern slide depicting the impression of an apple leaf driven into solid steel by guncotton, declared the detonation in a tube of nitroglycerin proceeds at four mi. per sec., described a new explosive, iodide of nitrogen, which is so skittish that the landing of a housefly sets...
Hewitt Mitchell is now married to a former school friend and rearing a baby daughter who traveled some 10,000 mi. during her first three months. Back in Shanghai, flying through the fogs of the Yangtzekiang, and meantime training Pilot McCleskey for the new Shanghai-Chengtu Express, he is looking forward to a vacation and home next summer...
...faltering. Indeed by Oct. 21-23 it was the best the Bureau had ever observed. Next day-the crucial day-reception fell off sharply by half, and the expected fading occurred. Simultaneously the uppermost main layer of the ionosphere (radio-reflecting region of electrified air) rose from 155 mi. to a record height of 285 mi...
decided to build a Class I railroad out of his own pocket, which was exceedingly well lined with Standard Oil millions. Right through the Panic of 1907 he continued to sink those millions into what is now the Virginian Railway, a 600-mi. line running from deep water at Hampton Roads, Va. through the Pocahontas and New River coal fields to West Deepwater, W. Va. It cost Oilman Rogers between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 and was one of the few railroads financed entirely...
...trailer, but she refused to re-enter it. Keeper Zweark subtly led her around the block, casually up to the trailer. Jap sidled off. After two days of wheedling Jap, Keeper Zweark said, "She's made up her mind about trailers," led her on foot the 25 mi. to her quarters in Pompton Lakes...