Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French railways are heavily subsidized, cost the Government between $198,000,000 and $264,000,000 a year. Spurred by Premier Doumergue, Minister of Public works Pierre Etienne Flandin presented a plan last week to cut (wo billion francs a year from this charge by replacing 6,000 mi. of secondary lines by passenger and freight buses and trimming 60,000 employes from the rolls. He further proposed to cut the pay and pensions of all other employes. With luck. this should leave French railroads selfsupporting...
...silk parachutes, laid two men on the ice. He swaddled them in all the clothes they had, then in the parachutes, wrapping them like Indian papooses. He laid out one on each under wing of his biplane, lashed them securely, flew his load of five 100 mi. across the white waste to Cape Van Karem. When Pilot Molokov came back for another load, Professor Schmidt had developed pneumonia symptoms but he refused to leave until all his villagers had gone. To the Soviet high command at Moscow, the professor is more valuable than any ten of his villagers. Direct from...
...islands lying in the West Pacific, the Japanese sampans point southward. They cross the Equator, weave through the maze of the East Indian Archipelago toward Australia's New Guinea and North Australia. In the shallow waters of the Coral Sea along the Great Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready a fleet of fast motorboat patrols to catch...
University of Maine is tucked away 68 mi. up the Penobscot River at rustic Orono (pop.: 3,400), eight miles above Bangor. It started out in 1868 with twelve students and two teachers as a State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts. By 1897 the school had added a college of arts & sciences and was ready to call itself a university. A College of Law founded in 1898 expired in 1920. A School of Education was launched in 1930. Maine's chief distinction is still in its College of Agriculture & Forestry and a College of Technology which Maine men like...
...father, he took a medical course at University of Vermont, two years later went West. Conventional practice in Tacoma seemed no more promising than farm or mill, but in 1909 Dr. Bridge at last found what he was looking for. He bought an industrial contract practice in Eatonville, 30 mi. southwest of Tacoma. By 1923 Dr. Bridge was rich and ready to expand. Leaving his Eatonville hospital and contracts in charge of his first assistant surgeon, he bought the practice of a contract surgeon in Tacoma, set about becoming a medical tycoon in earnest. As new contracts flowed...