Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasized the fact that these marks had been made without recourse to "suped up" engines, synthetic fuels or "five-hour engines" (such as Nazis and Fascists use). Flying all one afternoon and night, the big four-motored Boeing "superfortress" (XB-15) carried a two-ton payload 3,107 miles averaging 166.32 m.p.h. No record existed for this weight and distance; the Corps just set it up to shoot at, expecting to break it as soon as the superfortress (150 ft. wingspread) is equipped with bigger engines. Two days prior, the same ship climbed to 8,200 feet with...
...nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...
...pretty, 19-year-old Grinnell College girl who lives far away in Washington, D. C. When Mary Ellen Appleby, daughter of Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture Paul H. Appleby, was a little girl, she was terrified of every kind of insect ("I'd run a mile from a daddy long-legs") except fireflies, which she loved. She began to read up on fireflies, learned a lot of things about them-for example, that what makes them flash is a luminous substance called luciferin secreted in their abdomens, that most entomologists believe the flash is a mating call. Mary...
...Message No. 51 laid facts & figures before L. & N. employes to dramatize Jim Hill's constant plea for small savings. To get the money to buy one lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...
...Hill's 1938 salary ($51,777), it could be calculated that the road has to haul 6,472,125 tons of average freight a mile. Considering the fact that L. & N. has made money year after year while most other Class I roads are in the soup, he is doubtless worth...