Word: mi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...read of Chinese feats of heroism, produced some exciting stories, mostly at Shanghai. Best was the Shanghai story of how "General Teng Ti-mei and 360 soldiers wearing only summer uniforms of thin cotton had made an heroic last stand in sub-zero weather" on Mount Takushan, 125 mi. southeast of Mukden, since the middle of December...
Much easier to operate than a steam engine is an electric locomotive. Fortnight ago Pennsylvania Railroad completed electrification of the 91 mi. between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Four crack passenger trains between the two cities, each making a roundtrip, are now electrically- drawn. Eventually all passenger trains on the run, then all freight trains, will have electric locomotives. Electrification of the lines as far as Wilmington will be completed by February but work on the Wilmington-Washington branch has been postponed...
...Boston, last summer furnished Mr. Zemurray with a grandson at 56. His son, Samuel Jr., last year played tackle on Tulane's football team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research...
...Most such proclamations were of course mere bluff, but the world listened to Poet-General Tsai Ting-kai, famed for the glorious resistance of his 19th Route Army to Japan's attack on Shanghai (TIME, Feb.1). Telegraphed General Tsai, who happened to be in British Hongkong 1,600 mi. from Shanhaikwan last week: "If Chang Hsueh-liang has no intention of resisting I will take the19th Route Army to North China...
...Avions Farman, French plane builders, have followed Professor Piccard's suggestions for the secret construction of a sealed cabin plane which is supposed to travel 450 m.p.h. at 10 mi. altitude...