Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Marathon, its city's No. 1 sport event, is annually held on Patriot's Day. That Patriot's Day last week coincided with Good Friday served only to increase the excitement of the 500,000 enthusiasts who, as usual, lined the 26-mi. course from Hopkinton to Exeter Street. At Natick, one Mrs. Mary Bonfatti was so perturbed that she drove her automobile into two policemen. At Wellesley, students lined the streets, hooted or cheered contestants as they staggered past, 13 miles from the finish. At Auburndale, girl students of Lasell Junior College who were forbidden...
...Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this crew for this flight...
...twelve hours the ocean was not sighted once beneath the moonlight-flooded clouds. At dawn the Clipper broke through the grey mists overhanging Oahu Island, sped onward in the bright sunlight of a Hawaiian morning, to make a 150-mi. survey of landing areas. Then, within one minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper...
...goodwill, for science, and for publicity, Amelia Earhart Putnam set out from Los Angeles one day last week to fly nonstop to Mexico, D. F. (1,700 mi.). The prospect of a visit from the world's No. 1 woman aviator so excited Mexicans that most Government employes were given a holiday, a special postage stamp issue was arranged, and swarthy Foreign Minister Emilio Fortes Gil prepared to greet the lady in the name of the Republic...
...shells fought each other over every yard of the 3-mi. course with California a length ahead at the halfway mark. Washington, using a slower but more powerful stroke, gradually caught up from there on. At the finish, the bows were so close together that, while the judges were trying to decide who won, an unofficial announcement through loudspeakers rigged along the banks gave the victory to California by two feet. While the crowd was yelping too loud to hear it, judges announced the real result: Washington, by two yards...