Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KHAQQ!" (the plane's call letters) over & over, and there was no indication whether the plane was on land or sea, south or north of Howland, the greatest rescue expedition in flying history speedily got under way at huge expense. From Hawaii at forced draft steamed the battleship Colorado, from San Diego four destroyers and the aircraft carrier Lexington with 72 planes, from Japan vessels of the Japanese fishing fleet. At week's end no one knew whether Miss Earhart was another Kingsford-Smith, who was lost forever in the Bay of Bengal, or another Ellsworth...
...Harvey Harlow Nininger has made Denver the meteorite capital of the U. S. Curator of meteorites at Colorado Museum of Natural History, professor of geology and meteoritics at University of Denver, he is the most persistent and energetic chaser of meteorites in the land, possessor of the world's largest private meteorite collection and probably the only scientist anywhere who spends all his working time hunting, studying, writing or talking about fragments of the cosmos from outer space. Last week some 800 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science assembled in Denver for their summer meeting...
Surging through the giant turbines of Boulder Dam, the Colorado River can now produce 1,240,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy per year which is piped 267 miles to Los Angeles over six hollow copper cables 11 in. in diameter. In an engineering enterprise of this magnitude unique solutions of special problems are likely to occur. One such solution publicized in Los Angeles last week was the way in which radio communication is maintained with the 14 repair crews which patrol the transmission line in automobiles...
...five weeks, from June 28 to August 1, the Harvard Geology Summer School will be encamped near Colorado Springs, Colorado, to study the Front Range of he Rocky Mountains. Lincoln R. Thiesmeyer, instructor in Geology, will be in charge of the camp, and Geology 85 will be given as a regular course...
Another Geology 1 section man, Charles S. Denny, is carrying on research for his degree in New Mexico and Colorado, Carleton A. Chapman, instructor in Petrography, is working in New Hampshire. And Richard P. Goldwait, assistant in Geology, will also be in New Hampshire, Goldwait is studying glaciology, and his work will center around glaciar-carved Mt. Washington...