Word: mi.
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lizard-Eaters- Two months ago Capt. Hans Bertram, 27, and Mechanic Adolph Klaussmann took off from Koepang. Timor Island, for Darwin, Australia, 500 mi. south. In their Junkers seaplane Atlantis they had left Germany three months prior, on a tour to boost German trade. From Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously...
Some 150 schoolteachers, touring the ranch of Publisher William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon, Calif., crashed through a temporary flooring into an empty, unfinished concrete swimming pool. Fifteen had to be taken in ambulances 60 mi. to San Luis Obispo...
Santa Fe (13,568 mi.) William Benson Storey...
Southern Pacific (16,877 mi...
Great Northern (8,400 mi., a "Hill road") William P. Kenney, president...