Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Pacific, at San Francisco (250 beds) and at Houston (125 beds). Last week Edward Stephen Harkness, good angel of many a school and hospital, gave $600,000 to the Southern Pacific to add a wing to the San Francisco hospital and to build a tuberculosis sanitarium at Tucson, Ariz...
Around Nogales, Ariz., raged a terrific electric storm. At intervals the blinding flashes revealed a dark horseman, bowed in his saddle, motionless on the plain. When the storm cleared, searchers found the horseman to be Rancher Roy Sorrell. Both he and his mount had been electrocuted, left stiffly standing...
Near Coon Butte, Ariz., is a mysterious pit nearly a mile in diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...
Human Cost of attracting public attention to the Cleveland show, by derbies, races, stunts, was high. Killed: Marvel Crosson, of San Diego (at Wellton, Ariz., racing from Santa Monica); Thomas G. ("Jack") Reid, of Downey, Cal. (making a solo endurance record); Edward J. ("Red") Devereaux, of Woodside, L. I., Mrs. Devereaux, and Edward J. Reiss of New York (at Boston, racing from Philadelphia). Injured: Lady Mary (Sophie Elliott-Lynn) Heath, near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing...
Died. Marvel Crosson. 25, of San Diego. Cal., aviatrix, woman's altitude record holder (23,996 ft.); near Wellton, Ariz.. when she, an entrant in the Women's Air Derby (see pp. 18 & 50) jumped from her dead-motored airplane...