Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good that last week two Manhattan financial houses, Union Securities Corp. and White, Weld & Co., agreed to manage the underwriting of the entire $87 million. To build the pipeline, Glasco had lined up Burt Hull, builder of both the Big and the Little Inch and the 1,068-mi.-long line across the desert of Saudi Arabia, named him the company's chairman of the board...
...salesman. The bleak island of Newfoundland and the mainland territory of Labrador, which has been part of Newfoundland for nearly 200 years, are among Canada's most forbidding wildernesses. Much of the land is barren and rocky, dotted with lakes and great bogs. In its 154,734 sq. mi., an area almost as big as California, only three towns have more than 5,000 people. There is still no cross-island highway, only a narrow-gauge railroad that arcs across the island but does not touch one hamlet in ten. Newfoundlanders get around in summer by boat, in winter...
...Greenwich, England, Noel Coward was fined ?1 for driving his white Jaguar 40 m.p.h. in a 30-mi. zone. The celebrated wit's unwitty line: "My speedometer wasn't working...
...eccentric-styled Czechoslovakian army captain who runs as if every step would be his last. After shattering Olympic marks in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, he capped his own climax by breaking the Olympic marathon record the first & only time he ever ran the tortuous (26 mi. 385 yd.) distance. The biggest Olympic disappointment was Japan's top-rated swimming team, which copped only two silver medals. Even famed Hironoshin ("the Flying Fish") Furuhashi straggled in a bad last in the 400-meter free-style final...
There are other indignities forced upon them by victorious Russia: Petsamo (Pechenga) in the north and timber-rich Finnish Karelia on the east, both annexed by Russia in 1944. The Finns prefer to think and talk of the land they have left, vast (130,000 sq. mi.), rugged and beautiful, stretching high into the Arctic, where the sun shines day & night in summertime. It is a land of 60,000 gleaming lakes set in dark forests that sprawl over 80,000 square miles, a land of granite-strewn farms stingy in yield, of busy, sober towns and endless stretches...