Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pedro, night before the Japanese denunciation, Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commanding the U. S. Fleet, announced from his flagship U. S. S. Pennsylvania grand maneuvers next spring in the Northern Pacific by 177 war boats and 447 war planes over 5,000,000 sq. mi. of strategic seaways. Exulted the 100% American Los Angeles Times: "A vast armada, the largest and most powerful by a wide margin ever assembled under a single command in the world's naval history...
Until last June the Moffat Line ran west from Denver through the Moffat Tunnel, down the western slope of the Rocky Mountains and out into the sagebrush where it stopped 346 mi. short of Salt Lake City. When Denver & Rio Grande Western completed the Dotsero Cutoff which linked the Moffat Line to its main line into Salt Lake, Denver for the first time in history was on a through transcontinental route (TIME, June...
...mi. in four days, took second place in the speed race, first in the handicap. It was hailed the world over as the race's real hero because it carried a commercial payload of mail & passengers. Month ago when it returned to Amsterdam 50,000 Netherlanders turned proudly out to do it honor...
Egypt. Near the pyramid of Senusret at Lisht, 30 mi. south of Cairo, in clay undisturbed since the Twelfth Dynasty, an expedition of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art turned up four little ivory figures. The Egyptian Government insisted on keeping three of them; the museum put the fourth on exhibition. When Expedition Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory...
Spurning lifeboat and life-preservers. Lieutenant Ulm and two companions last week climbed aboard Stella Australis, took off from Oakland on the 2,400-mi. water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy...