Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lizards have since been found on a few neighboring islands, but most are on Komodo. Komodo is a volcanic island 22 mi. long and 12 mi. wide, covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared...
...finest fighting aircraft will be the purchase of 80 new high-speed bombers to be delivered in 1935. With contracts to be let by competitive bidding. Army officials expect the new bombers will have a top speed of 250 m.p.h., cruising speed of 220 m.p.h., ability to climb 2 mi...
Last week a supercharged 800-h.p. Hornet motor flew from Detroit to New York (550 mi.) in 1 hr.. 47 min.. 21 sec., averaging 308.4 m.p.h. or more than five miles a minute. Tacked to it was a tiny fuselage just big enough to hold big Roscoe Turner, Hollywood's favorite flyer. Unofficially broken was the official world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.) held by James R. Wedell, who built Turner's plane. A huge dust storm over the Alleghenies cut Turner's speed from a maximum of 340 m.p.h...
Charles H. Johnson of Cranberry Lake, N. J.: the seventh annual outboard-motor boat marathon down the Hudson River from Albany to New York (132¼ mi.) in 2 hr., 59 min., 38 sec. In his Class C boat, Dorchart III, the 23-year-old driver averaged 44.2 m.p.h., came within 3 min. of the course record set by a higher-powered boat. Winner of Amateur Class A and one of 18 drivers to finish in a field of 66 starters, was Gar Wood Jr., 16-year-old son of the famed speedboating "Silver Fox of Algonac." Youngster Wood...
...Chicago. Dr. Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only 1½ to 2 gal. water daily (TIME, April 23) was a 40 lb. loss of weight (245 lb. to 205 lb.). On one occasion "I broke...