Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ninety British bombers flew over France in the second "air-raid" training exercises arranged by the British and French Air Ministries. Forty long-range Wellingtons made a 1,500-mile non-stop cruise to and from Marseille, where large crowds gathered in the streets to watch the demonstration. Lighter bombers cruised over Orleans and Paris. Not bashful were the British in pointing out that the Marseille bombers, had they veered slightly to the left, would have been over Turin, Italy's big munitions-manufacturing city, or had they taken a course directly eastward from Britain would have circled over...
Sixteen days, 19 hours, 4 minutes after leaving New York, Widow Adams was back again. She had flown all the way. Total mileage: 25,000. Cost: $2,500. Chortled she: "That's ten cents a mile. Can you travel cheaper than that...
...camels are more numerous than automobiles. Baby industries-machine shops, an arsenal, a power station, leather, shoe and textile factories-have been established. Six months ago excited Mongols raced their tough little ponies against the first railroad train they had ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with the country's only coal mine. Three years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin informed the world that the U. S. S. R. would tolerate no outside interference there, and Foreign Commissar Molotov dittoed these sentiments last...
Physiologists Britton and Kline went down to Panama, collected a few sloths (which are fairly tame and amenable) and got to work. First, they clocked the animals' normal progress along the underside of a horizontal pole. Speed of a two-toed sloth: a third of a mile an hour. Speed of a three-toed sloth: two-ninths of a mile an hour...
...also obtained by injections of adrenalin and prostigmin (an intestinal stimulant), and by scaring them. Subjected to such speedup techniques as this, the Virginia physiologists were pleased to report in Science last week that one thoroughly stimulated sloth hustled along the pole at the relatively dizzy pace of one mile an hour...