Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following up the swift surprise offensive which carried across the Ebro River last fortnight to make a 240-square-mile dent in the north side of Rightist Generalissimo Franco's salient-to-the-sea, Spain's Leftists last week launched another. The second dented the south side of the salient, some 30 miles west of battered Teruel. Taking advantage of the fact that the Rightists had shipped 40,000 troops from the Teruel area to the Ebro front, bald-domed General José Miaja, commander-in-chief on the southern Leftist front, pushed his forces through thinly-held...
...Colorado River Authority's four-dam flood control and power project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought he had found a good demonstration of an old powerman's axiom: That power generation and flood control are conflicting purposes, because an empty dam cannot run generators and a full dam cannot store flood waters...
...Leftist advance swept forward a dozen miles on a 20-mile front, reached the strategic city of Gandesa, taken by the Rightists last spring after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. After a terrific struggle last week, the Leftists were thrown back from the gates of Gandesa. But they claimed 5,000 Rightist prisoners, and relieved Rightist pressure in the south...
...Eiger, a 13,042-ft. peak in the Jungfrau range, was first scaled in 1858, has been climbed many times since. But until three years ago, the Eiger had never been tackled via its north wall-a terrifying, ice-coated precipice over a mile high. Then two glory-greedy Germans decided to attempt it. They never returned. Nor did seven others who tried...
Swiss guides agreed that the 1938 invaders had no better chance than their predecessors. From the hotel terrace at Kleine Scheidegg, a mile below, curious tourists and anxious natives watched the climbers through telescopes. For three days they watched them, inching their way like tiny black spiders up a white web. The third evening, the quartet that had started out as two competing teams joined ropes, stood lashed to the rock, 500 ft. from the top, waiting for dawn and the crawl to victory...