Word: mile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a reporter asked whether armed merchant ships also might be barred from U. S. ports, the President said that comparing such ships and submarines was like trying to add pears and apples. Orally amplifying his proclamation, he explained that belligerent submarines may not come within the traditional three-mile limit of U. S. coasts. But, he noted once again, for other purposes U. S. territorial limits may extend as far out to sea as U. S. interests require...
...vicinity of the hurricane, he knew. But British ships had ceased broadcasting weather reports, which might betray their location to submarines, and he had no specific reports of the storm's path which might have enabled him to avoid it. The President Harding, now actually 200 miles east of the hurricane's core, was suddenly buffeted by a no-mile-an-hour wind, floundered in a sea which rolled up into a single mountainous wave that struck her broadside...
...York County, District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, reminded voters he was just a country boy at heart by buying the place where he has weekended for two years - a 300-acre farm near Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
...soil last week was Britain's Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. He bustled through the base fields, interviewed pilots who had seen action, said bonjour to one of their landladies by way of improving international relations. Correspondent William Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "A howling, 50-mile-an-hour gale and a soggy airdrome did not prevent one young gallant from going up and putting on a hair-raising show for us this noon 'just to show that we don't mind the weather.' For half an hour he dived his ship from...
...following events are scheduled: high and low hurdles, 3 o'clock; broad jump, 3:20 o'clock; 100-yard heats, 3:30 o'clock; medley relay, 8:45 o'clock; 100-yard finals, 4 o'clock; mile run, 4:10 o'clock; mile relay (four sprints), 4:25 o'clock; high jump, 4:35 o'clock...