Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston's famed gift to athletics, the 26-mile, 385-yard Patriots' Day Marathon, which each year adds laureled heroes to the ranks of running's greats, yesterday culled but one doughty Crimsonite for the gruelling stretch...
...Quantas pilot, 40-year-old G. U. ("Guppy") Allan, renowned in Australia as an opener of new air routes. So heavy were Pilot Allan's mailbags (8,000 Ib.) that passengers were transferred to another ship. Imperial Airways looks forward this year to extending its 20,000-mile system by a North Atlantic service to Canada. Still in the dim future is the completion of its empire world circuit with a route across the Pacific between Vancouver and Hong Kong...
...German State Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn), world's largest system,* all tracks, rolling stock and property of the 3,628-mile Austrian State Railways. Said an official announcement from the German Railroads Information Office, which last week closed all U. S. bureaus of the Austrian State Tourist Department: "The rejoicing of Austria and the happiness of the Austrian and German people over their long desired reunion will also be a boon to travelers: the dark clouds of political uncertainty have drifted away...
Close Half Mile...
...most exciting races of the afternoon was a half mile duel between Al Hanlon '39 and Rollo Campbell '41. Though Joe Donnelly '40 won the race with a fifty yard handicap to his benefit Hanlon and Campbell were the focal point when they ran abreast down the back stretch, Hanlon in the last few yards edging out Campbell. Hanlon's time was 1 minute, 57.3 seconds...