Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Billy Direct, four-year-old pacer: a mile race (against time) in 1 min. 55 sec.; at long last breaking world's record of 1:55∧ which has stood since 1905 as the greatest speed of a harness horse (pacer or trotter); at Lexington, Ky. Next day, six-year-old Greyhound, No. 1 trotter of the decade, stepped a mile in 1: 55¼ breaking the 1:56 world's trotting record* he set a year...
Last week the CAA, in its first big airport decision, gave its nod to the Gravelly Point site, immediately set about securing a $4,000,000 PWA appropriation, cooperation of the Army Engineering Corps and WPA labor to get the new Washington National Airport under way. A mile further downriver than the present field, the site lies three and a half miles from the centre of the capital, ten minutes away via the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway. Immediate plans call for a 750-acre field, 500 acres to be "made" with fill dredged from the river bottom and graded...
...June 1936 Eastern railroads began selling passenger tickets at 2? a mile (after 16 years at 3.6?). Within a few months officials complained that the low fare was a losing proposition. Increase in traffic, they said, was not enough to compensate for the cut rate. After hearing them grumble for months, the Interstate Commerce Commission last July permitted them to hike their fares to 2½? mile. This was expected to raise income about $32,000.000 (TIME, July...
When Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. asked the Federal Power Commission fortnight ago for permission to build a 2,346-mile, $21,470,000 pipe line north through unpiped country to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the United Mine Workers and various coal companies were swift to protest (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week the coal-men had new cause for worry. Also lured by the low-grade ores now lying undug at Mesabi for lack of cheap fuel to smelt them, Public Service Gas Co. of Montana asked FPC for permission to build...
...hurricane two days out of Colon. This is on Thursday. By Sunday, when the hurricane abates, the Archimedes is a shambles and the crew has gone through an experience calculated to turn even Conrad's seamen green around the gills. A hurricane begins when wind velocity reaches 75 miles an hour. On the second day the Archimedes, its rudder gone, is broadside in a 200-mile blow and the barometer has dropped out of sight. Hatch covers are sucked off like corks out of a bottle. The funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water...