Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal power dream was going to come true. Last week, with the dam a third completed, the President turned to TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan to exult: "It's great stuff, isn't it!" Dr. Morgan remarked that the lake behind the dam will have an 800-mi. shoreline. "If we start to rent cottage sites along the shoreline we'll make a fortune," joshed the President. Down the bluff they drove to see some workers, whom President Roosevelt addressed as future "veterans" in a "new kind of war-a war to improve the conditions of millions...
Still 140 mi. from his goal, Scott with Wilson, Bowers, Gates and Evans split off from the others for the final dash. They reached the Pole on Jan. 16, were staggered to find a black flag left by Amundsen. "Great God!" Scott wrote. "This is an awful place, and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority...
Furiously he started the 800-mi. trek back. Sickness, starvation, bad weather ground him and his four companions down. Evans collapsed, lost his mind, died. One day Oates said, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He never came back. His sacrifice was in vain. In November 1912, a searching party found Scott's tent, half buried in snow, a few miles from the last route camp. The three bodies were in their sleeping bags...
...decayed nobility. But as a result of last fortnight's election, Duke Kahanamoku became peace officer of an area far larger than any dukedom. Democratic votes put the brown-skinned native in as Sheriff of Honolulu County, "world's largest," extending from Oahu Island 1,300 mi. northwest to Midway Island. Vehemently anti-New Deal because of resentment over the Territory's sugar quota under the Jones-Costigan bill (TIME, June 25), Hawaii voted into office but few other Democrats...
...years ago the Colombian Navy splashed into the news by racing 5,000 mi. around South America and up the Amazon River to the scene of a potential war with Peru. Peru has a sad navy: two old cruisers, three destroyers, four submarines. Colombia has one even sadder: six little gunboats, the biggest under 700 tons, and some coast guard patrol boats.* Luckily the League of Nations settled the "war" in Colombia's favor, but the worried Colombians have lately been picking up bargains in second-hand war boats. Thus a U. S. steamer named the Commercial Traveler...