Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz's zoo at Holland, Mich. This week a larger public may look at them when with grunts, growls, roars, squeals and speeches the Chicago Zoological Society opens its new, 133-acre zoo at Brookfield, 15 mi. southwest of Chicago...
...labeled. No such notice is required for chicory fillers. The use of "that common abomination, the basing-point trick" works to the advantage of big lumber millers. In one case a New England contractor was required to pay mill costs plus a "phantom" rail carrying charge on a 400-mi. haul, although the mill was only 72 mi. away. Same practice was prevalent in the cement industry. Biggest Darrow blast was directed against the retail code. Originally containing specific provisions against "loss-leaders" and unfair advertising of consistently lowered prices, the code was "stealthily" emasculated, said the Darrow Board, between...
...weeks ago King George. Queen Mary, the Duke & Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth went down for the first time to Whipsnade in Bedfordshire. 34 mi. from London. There on English meadows thick with bluebells they saw wolves, bears, elephants, rheas taking their ease in what Britons hope will some day be the biggest, finest, most humane zoo in the world. A 50-acre park opened in 1931. it is arranged for the comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party...
...Roosevelt been two hours late he would not have delayed the ceremonies. Off Staten Island fog closed in. The Indianapolis dropped anchor, whistled for a wind to blow the dank pall away. Ultimately the whistling had its effect. After noon the four-starred cruiser reached the reviewing grounds two mi. south of Ambrose Lightship, followed by the Louis-mile bearing lesser lights of the Government. Out of the distant haze emerged the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Fleet, with the clean, high silhouets of airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington behind...
Airline distance, from Camden, N. J. to Middletown, Del. is 54 mi. Frank Hawks in his Northrop Gamma could fly this distance in 15 min. Roscoe Turner in his Wedell-Williams could fly it in less. But last week it was news when a plane called Miss Philadelphia IV flew from Camden to Middletown in 2 hr. 35 min. Miss Philadelphia IV has a wingspan of 6 ft. 1 in., a fuel capacity of 13 oz., a tiny one-cylinder Brown engine. Followed by a full-sized plane from take-off to landing she climbed 8,000 ft., glided...