Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their precious persons from England, groped through blinding fog, shied away from towering icebergs and treacherous, low-floating "growlers," made hooting, painfully slow progress westward. It was a bad crossing from the start. Three days out George had to muffle up and Elizabeth stayed mostly indoors as a 60-mile gale whipped the Empress, tossing up mighty waves that washed over her gunwales. The wallowing sent many of the retinue discreetly to their cabins, but Their Majesties proved fine sailors. In the teeth of the gale, they watched the battle cruiser Repulse pick up a cask of mail dropped from...
When President German Busch carved Bolivia into a totalitarian state three weeks ago, he announced proudly that it was his own doing, that Rome and Berlin had not helped. Last week Bolivia announced a barter agreement with Germany. For German machinery, a 350-mile pipeline across the Gran Chaco, and an oil refinery in Paraguay, Bolivia planned to ship some $15,000,000 of goods, principally petroleum, to oil-hungry Nazis. The man who made the announcement was not mournful Dictator Busch, but his tough, roving-eyed sidekick and Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Dionisio Foianini...
With the Davis "perfect wing" as a starter, Consolidated in ten months built its new boat from the ground up without help from Army or Navy. Long before the ship had flown, however, the news of its spectacular 10,000-mile cruising range was out, and the Navy, one of Consolidated^ best customers, poked in its nose. At week's end it appeared likely that Model 31's first assignment will be as a patrol bomber for the fleet...
...Chief Clayton Bishop of the Onset (Mass.) Fire Department: the 130-mile outboard motorboat race down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City; in 3 hr., 11 min., 22 sec.; breaking the record for Class B boats (16-h.p. motors, 100-lb. hulls); and setting another record by becoming the first driver to win the race twice...
...child of nine, while engaged in his "daily task of rowing a large boat one quarter of a mile," dislocated his right hip, was forced to remain in a cast for six weeks. His epileptic seizures returned. But deep breathing and arm exercises helped him while he was bedridden, and when he recovered, he went back to his training with no further attacks...