Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interchange of inconsequent bombardments. The great Leftist offensive launched "to raise the Siege of Madrid" (TIME, July 26 et seq.) had been broken by the Rightists at Brunete and not a single structure stood last week in that shattered spearhead of the Madrid defenders' advance. As pretty, Polish Mile. Gerda Taro, 25, was taking pictures for LIFE and footage for the MARCH OF TIME of the retreat from Brunete she was killed...
Bills limiting freight trains to 70 cars or a half-mile, sometimes also restricting passenger trains to 14 or 16 cars, have been introduced in 29 other States, always strongly backed by organized railway labor. The Legislatures of Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, California passed them. In California, however, the measure was killed by a Governor's veto; in the other States the laws were found unconstitutional by Federal courts...
First Race. The America's Cup goes to the yacht which first wins four races. Races are 30 mi. each, alternating between 1) a straight course into the wind & back and 2) a course around an equilateral triangle with ten-mile sides. Last week, after spectators had delayed the start 45 min., Ranger and Endeavour crossed the line, with Endeavour a length ahead but Ranger well to windward. The breeze was light and the boats' job was to work 15 mi. into it, round a buoy and run back before the wind to the line they had just...
...Robinson (TIME, July 26) and set foot in a scene of the greatest political confusion which Washington had witnessed in many years. At the Capitol a group of resolute Democrats stood entrenched with the firm resolve that the Supreme Court Bill should not pass. At the White House, mile and a half away, sat a grim President not only determined that it should pass but still expecting that it would. From the moment of his arrival, white-haired Jack Garner took charge of the situation...
Dutch-blooded President Franklin Delano Roosevelt this week started U. S. Minister to Haiti George Anderson Gordon on a 5,500-mile sea journey from sunny squalor to scrubbed prosperity, from slender mulattoes to broad-beamed Nordics, from Haiti to The Hague, where he will be accredited to regally pink-&-white Queen Wilhelmina instead of to duskily diffident Haitian President Stenio Vincent. Saying an official goodby to Port-au-Prince meant having sent down from Manhattan presents for pickaninnies in the hospital patronized by Mrs. Gordon and choice viands including meat for the banquet Minister Gordon served to mulatto dignitaries...