Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly Congressman Douglass from Washington comes to the defense of East Boston people, where no defense was necessary. In a fine passion he tells what a great people we are, and how nice everything is here. He defies students living on the "gold coast" of Harvard College, and a lot more of the same stuff. All of which was just plain bunk...
...Area. The eclipse of last week was something over three hours in actual duration. It covered some 110° of longitude, 45° of latitude, beginning in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa at dawn. Traveling in a northeasterly direction-into regions where the day was more advanced-it crossed the Equator, swung eastward, ended at sunset in the Pacific Ocean between Guam and New Guinea. Although a partial phase of the eclipse was visible in parts of Africa, southern Asia and a large part of Oceania, totality (where the full shadow of the moon fell upon...
...Confirmed the nominations of: George T. McDermott, Orie L. Phillips, Curtis Dwight Wilbur as U. S. circuit judges; Julius Klein as Assistant Secretary of Commerce; William D. L. Starbuck and Charles McK. Saltzman as Federal Radio Commissioners; Raymond S. Patton as Director of the Coast & Geodetic Survey...
...night-flying transcontinental airmail got under way last week. On the new schedule, letters posted on either coast one evening are delivered at the opposite coast two mornings (about 32 hours) later. This has been made feasible by floodlighting the route's western terminus, Oakland Municipal Airport. Until the Rockies were flown at night, the shortest airmail trip across the continent was performed in one day, one night, one day. Now it is done in one night, one day, one night-saving one business...
...chief obstacles he saw to the perfection of all-air transportation for passengers from coast-to-coast: 1) The fog hazard, which he expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement...