Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Foreign Office by Minister Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded neutrals, and Sweden simultaneously complained to Germany about some sea mines laid within her three-mile limit. Italy protested too, but with a mildness explained by the fact that if Germany's exports (many of which go through Genoa and Trieste) are clamped down on, Italy may inherit Germany's foreign customers...
...time called the Polish Government "a farce." Last week the Moscow press picked up a New York Herald Tribune story saying that at Angers "one of the smallest States in the world-probably smaller than any except the State of Vatican City-is being established on an estate one mile long and half a mile wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating whether to import the latter or ask local...
Belmont Park has long been the prettiest and toniest race track in the U. S. Its wide-sweeping racing strip (only 1½-mile track in the U. S.), its picturesque steeplechase course in the infield, its straightaway course (Widener Chute) for wobbly-legged two-year-olds unaccustomed to maneuvering around turns, and its mile training track make it not only the most elaborate racing plant in the U. S. but also ideally suited for classic distance races like the Belmont Stakes (1½ miles), Jockey Club Gold Cup (2 miles), Lawrence Realization (if miles). But, because of its vastness...
...Hine, the one-half hour experience of handling the "stick" was "good fun." He stated that despite the 60-mile wind he had little difficulty with the new airplane...
Previous experience for candidates is not necessary, authorities pointed out, "yet after only nine months, with only 215 hours in the air, they are at the controls of a 400-mile-an-hour pursuit ship, or looking down from the heights of a giant 'Flying Fortress' rearing through...