Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, Navy, Air Force and the Research and Development Board are working hard-and optimistically-to perfect them. Last week they made a joint request of Congress for a Long Range Proving Ground. During 1949, said Air Force General Muir S. Fairchild, the U.S. will have a 500-mile missile ready for testing, with no place to test...
...States. A long history of Supreme Court decisions had affirmed in strong language that the States controlled the tidelands. In 1933, when prospectors applied to the Interior Department for federal leases to tideland oil deposits, Harold Ickes said, "Title to the soil under the ocean within the three-mile limit is in the State of California, and the land may not be appropriated except by authority of the State...
...majority decision was that former decisions referred to tidelands, and the strict definition of tidelands is the land covered by the ebb and flow of the tides. No court ruling had ever been made covering the area between this tideland definitely owned by the states and the three-mile limit claimed by the United States...
That was the end. Governor Turner sold him for slaughter. Last week Rupert traveled his last mile to the Iowa Packing Co. His carcass (which had once fetched $38,000 on the hoof) brought $228 at 16? a pound. Most of Rupert would be ground into bologna...
...come to Aurora, the "Q's" birthplace, to celebrate the road's first 100 years. He donned a claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...