Word: cone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite reach this point in the S. S. Steelmaker, a freighter belonging to a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp., but with sympathetic co-operation from the captain they did get close enough to expect a duration of 7 min. 2 sec. Actually they were in the shadow cone for 7 min. 6 sec.-longer than the mathematical maximum-because while the shadow fled eastward the ship was also moving east at eight knots...
...must be near its maximum swing of over 94,000,000 miles (mean distance: 92,900,000 mi.) and the moon near its minimum distance of 218,000 miles (mean: 235,000 mi.). This condition occurred this week. When the sun is farther away than usual, the shadow cone beyond the moon is longer; and when the moon is closer to earth than usual, the earth intercepts a thicker section of the cone. The maximum possible width of an eclipse path is 167 miles. At its noon point the shadow path of this week's eclipse was 153 miles...
...Equator. The moon's eastward orbit carries the lunar shadow in the same direction at just about twice that speed, so that it rapidly overtakes the terrestrial rotation. At noon, when the shadow is perpendicular, the speed is 1,060 m.p.h.; earlier and later, when the cone of darkness impinges at an angle, it goes faster-depending on the acuteness of the angle...
...Allegheny Airport. At the wheel was 32-year-old Captain Frederick Lawrence Bohnet, a TWA veteran. The sky was overcast but the weather relatively smooth. Flying above the clouds Capt. Bohnet brought his big ship to Pittsburgh without trouble. At 6:33 p. m. he crossed the airport "cone of silence" at 5,000 ft. out of sight of ground. He was ordered to circle once while another plane came in. "Okay," he replied. For four minutes, as required, he flew west, gradually mushing down through the clouds. The ceiling was about 800 ft. and he broke through...
...next job was to keep Frankie out of trouble during the operation, and we were quickly handed a Campbell's soup tin stuffed with ether-soaked cotton to hold like a cone over the animal's nose. But it was no go. For Frankie was tough, and soon revived. He took one look in our direction to assure himself that the opposition was coming from the same quarters as before, and acted...