Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide blue harbor of Manila last week slid the U. S. destroyer Peary. Aboard her were 52 survivors of the wrecked British freighter Silverhazel which, bound out of San Francisco for Singapore and Bombay, had gone down with a loss of four lives in San Bernardino Strait, 350 mi. southwest of the Philippine capital...
President Quezon knows well what most Filipinos have yet to discover: that the U. S., in granting independence, is far from purely benevolent. Long ago the Philippines outdealt the New Deal in the matter of socialized industry. The Islands' 72,000 sq. mi. of timber are 99% owned by the Government, forested by license. The rich iron mines of Mindanao (second biggest island, after Luzon) are a Government reservation. It owns and works the coal deposits of Batan Island. It has taken over the Philippine Railroad. But to private enterprise is left the all-important agricultural industry, which since...
Because the Islands' 12,500 mi. coastline is easily "reachable" by* every power in Asia, the U. S. Army for years wanted to cast the Islands off. But few Army men were surprised when General Douglas MacArthur, ending a long and brilliant term as U. S. Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel and sailed to Manila as the Commonwealth's Military Adviser (TIME, Sept. 30). General Mac Arthur's mission is to set up in the next two years a military establishment, costing 16,000,000 pesos ($8,000,000) and enrolling 19,000 men, which...
...Filing proudly past, they marked the climax of a ceremony which drew notables from miles around. Immediate reason for the celebration was that workmen had just finished 28 miles of new concrete road. More significant: Nebraska at last had a paved road running from one end of its 460-mi. length to the other. Most significant: The last link in the Lincoln Highway had been completed, giving the U. S. its first transcontinental hard-surfaced road. Now known as "U. S. Route 30" most of the way from Atlantic City to Oakland, the Lincoln Highway was conceived by Promoter Carl...
...whose advertisement for a third wife got on national press association wires, pawed through 411 applications, discarded Southern women because "by the time they'd get clear up here a man might be out of the notion of marrying them," picked Mrs. Maggie Cornwall who lives 22 mi. away, passed the rest of the applications to his unmarried son Marvin, 36, and accepted the thanks of Charles Olson, chairman of the Ezra Worden Wedding Day Celebration Committee, for "all the publicity Ezra's given Three Lakes...