Word: miles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enfant Plan. Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and Revolutionary War officer, was engaged as chief city-planner. Engineer L'Enfant placed the Capitol on a low eminence ever since called "The Hill." About a mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill...
Familiar to Manhattanites, cherished by them, is the bouncing, bumping, jolting but economical 15 & 5 taxi (15? the first quarter mile, 5? further quarter miles). This landmark was last week fated to disappear. For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...
...increased operating expenses per cab by 40?a day. Additional insurance rates have produced a 50? a day increase. A taxi's daily intake is about $23, its net about $4. According to A. S. Freed, head of Paramount Cab Mfg. Co., the threatened 30? a mile rate (well within the legal limit of 40? would barely compensate for added costs of doing business...
Passage to India. Squadron Leader A. G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieut. N. H. Jenkins of the British Royal Air Force taxied a huge Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared...
...conditions are not suitable tomorrow afternoon, these two races will be put off again to Wednesday at the same time. The former will row the Henley distance, while the Freshman will cover the full mile and 3-4 course...