Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm homes in the U. S., today nearly 20% are wired for electricity. That is almost twice as many as were electrified when REA started operations in 1935. Since then REA has lent $90,000,000 to nearly 400 cooperatives, helped build some 84,000 miles of lines, which it strings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 a mile. Private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors. In 20 projects, notably The Thumb Cooperative, REA has also financed the building of generators, but other projects buy their...
...overtaken by an official automobile. At the head of the column the car stopped. Out stepped Premier Mussolini, nattily decked in a snow-white uniform of the Fascist militia. The 54-year-old Duce took his place in front of the battalion, challenged the soldiers to a one-mile trot into town...
There last week, with the same conviviality and commotion of 75 Race Days before it, an undefeated Harvard crew met an undefeated Yale crew for the four-mile race on the Thames-upstream this year from the railroad bridge to Bartlett's Cove. It was the first time since 1934 that either college had an undefeated crew. Harvard was the favorite because: 1) it had defeated every major crew in the East this spring (Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike...
...getting away from the stake boats. But that was the only time it was in front. In as pretty a race as has been seen on the Thames in years, both shells moved along as one-the Yale bow stubbornly clinging to the Harvard stern - until beyond the three-mile mark. There Yale made a courageous challenge, moved up almost neck & neck with the smooth-moving Harvard boat. But the spurt was not good enough. The crimson crew, with its short leg & arm stroke taught them by Washington-trained Tom Bolles, made its first spurt of the day, darted over...
...Refused, then offered new hope of, aid to the stricken railroads. Congress adjourned without passing any railroad emergency legislation, but the Interstate Commerce Commission agreed to reconsider its recent 6-to-5 decision against allowing a basic coach-passenger fare-increase from 2? to 2½? a mile. ICC also approved a reorganization plan of Spokane International Railway and Coeur d'Alene & Pend d'Oreille Railway calling for the merger of the two. Total trackage of these two roads is 161 miles, but the event was a milestone: the first ICC approval of a Class I reorganization since...