Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...super-weariness" just before the spectacle's 1,659th performance. The 70-year-old Negro actor was hospitalized for rest. Into the part stepped his understudy and friend of more than 40 years, Charles Winter Wood, 69, longtime teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Understudy Wood had traveled 40,000 mi. with the show since 1930 without having a chance to walk on as "de Lawd." "Hold me up, Charlie, hold me up," admonished Actor Harrison as he left the theatre. "I'll be back in a few days. The world at this time needs this play...
...Santa Fe, Argentina, Pedro Candioti plunged into the Paraná River, started swimming 299 mi. to Buenos Aires. Eighty-seven and a half hours later, chilled, exhausted, deserted by the jazz band which had encouraged him most of the way, still 41 mi. from his goal, Pedro Candioti crawled out, claimed a record for endurance...
...speed, dependability, frequency of schedules, U. S. airlines far surpass those of other countries, as all the world knows. Last week United Air Lines made public a survey showing that U. S. air travel also costs less. Average fare: 6? per mi.; average fare in Europe: 8½? per mi...
...mi. London-to-Melbourne air race which Sir MacPherson Robertson, Australian candy tycoon, backed with ?15,000 was supposed to demonstrate the superiority of British planes, of which one came in first (TIME, Oct. 29). But U. S. planes averaged best. To impress this superiority upon South America-and also, for the usual goodwilling-Elliott Roosevelt, 24, has lately been promoting an 18,500-mi. air derby round North & South America, to be directed by onetime Cavalryman Hugh Samuel Johnson...
...going back to round a marker he had missed, and finished third. At jumping, judges thought his teammate Henry S. Woods showed a shade better style. When it looked as if Dartmouth would win its own carnival, one of the four men skiing the third leg of the 12-mi. relay race, last event on the program, cut a corner and got his team disqualified. That gave New Hampshire University, with 511 points to McGill's 490, first place, with Dartmouth third...