Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caribbean, over Panama, down the west coast of South America, over the Andes, and into El Palomar airport at Buenos Aires last week roared six of the U. S. Army's new flying fortresses-four-motored bombers each manned by eight men. They had made the 5,225-mile flight in record time (34 hr. 14 min.) with only one stop at Lima, Peru. Purpose of the longest "good will" flight in Army aviation records was to represent the U. S. at the inauguration of Argentine President Roberto M. Ortiz (see p. 24)-conveniently scheduled three weeks after...
...sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River at Chengchow. In Shansi Province, to the West, Japanese columns were reportedly closing in on Linfeng, temporary provincial capital, which is some...
Last week the Taimyr struggled within a mile of the Papanin floe. It was joined by another icebreaker, the Murman, which had come up fast while the Taimyr was beating its channel through the pack. Eighty men swarmed out of the two ships, started for the floe on sleds. They were met by the joyful scientists, who carried a portrait of Joseph Stalin. All their equipment was transferred to the Taimyr. After drawing lots to decide which ship should have the honor of carrying which heroes home to glory. Leader Papanin and Radio Operator Krenkel boarded the Murman, Astronomer-Magnetologist...
...annual budget of some $25,000. Since last autumn the Methodist board of foreign missions has collected $61,000 above its budget, about one third of what it needs. Lately missionaries of the University of Nanking (in which Methodists and four other denominations cooperate) made a remarkable 1,000-mile trek to West China Union University in Chengtu, a three-week trip by boat past Hankow and through the Yangtze gorges. This move was partly financed by the Associated Board of Christian Colleges in China, which is currently appealing for $300,000 in the U. S. (TIME...
...fame as a conductor that brought French-born Mile Boulanger her engagement to lead the Bostonians...