Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, last week, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, although continuing to evacuate Hankow and evidently believing he cannot defend it much longer, launched a Chinese offensive at the Japanese in boggy, half-flooded, malarial country near Kiukiang, 135 miles down the Yangtze River below Hankow. Even skeptical foreign observers were inclined to take at face value last week the Chinese claim that this desperate counteroffensive threw the Japanese back for heavy losses on the whole width of a 45-mile salient...
This striking decision was announced at Moscow with dramatic display. The official press declared that on July 1 twelve wood-burners driven by Soviet crews exclusively female started out on a triumphal 7,000-mile test run which included a run through the Ural Mountains and was completed last week "with no accidents and no serious breakdowns." Foreign correspondents turned out to count the trucks as they were driven by their pretty crews through cheering crowds. They counted seven wood-burners which actually crossed the finish line out of the original twelve...
Most of the visitors are sheltered in camps pitched within a ten-mile radius, the fun-spot being the semipermanent Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) camp midway between the old town and the party grounds. Every night up to 100,000 Nazis who are to perform before the Fuhrer on the morrow are bedded in barracks at the Party Camp adjoining the broad Lake Dutzend and buildings. Pending the completion of super-colossal March Field, Adolf Hitler this week had to be content with the Zeppelin Meadow, holding 100,000 spectators. And pending the completion of the Nazi Congress...
...they'd take that outside plumbing off their ships." Recent years have seen most of Frank Hawks's speed records fall to Howard Hughes, but they have also seen the "outside plumbing" disappear from commercial aviation. By 1935, when Frank Hawks quit flying for Texaco, the 200-mile-an-hour transport flying he predicted had been approached...
...tremendous sensation whistling over the salt at 347 miles an hour. Whistling is the only word I know to describe it." Thus spoke mustachioed, 41-year-old Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, British auto racer, after driving his seven-ton, eight-wheeled, 3,600-h.p. Thunderbolt 13 miles along a black line on Utah's famed Bonneville salt flats one morning last week. His time for the measured mile (preceded by six to speed up and six to slow down) was the fastest land mark ever made-*-36 miles an hour faster than the world's record...