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...next 30 seconds of full eclipse, the feverish cameramen got a movie record and 36 still pictures, some in color, of the corona. Exactly two minutes and 30 seconds later, the sun, smiling on Dr. Stewart's happy party, disappeared behind the clouds again...
Mysterious Corona. Last week's eclipse, whose maximum duration (in Greenland) was 76 seconds, raised to a bare two and a quarter hours the total recorded observation of eclipses by modern science. Much of the scientific interest centers around the corona, which extends for millions of miles from the sun's surface. The corona,'most scientists think, is created by electromagnetic radiation and is probably related to the sun's magnetism and sunspots. Astrophysicists argue mildly among themselves about what its incandescent elements are (perhaps calcium, hydrogen, helium). The corona gives off a strange light, differing...
...navigation. Toughest route is that flown by Mountain States Aviation, Inc., whose one single-engined Beechcraft biplane has been successfully making the 286-mile loop from Denver through northwestern Colorado since July 24. On each trip it must fly through five mountain passes higher than 9,000 feet (highest: Corona Pass, 11,680 ft.). Other lines now operating are Massey & Ransom, and the Pueblo Air Services. Colorado Airlines, Inc. operated for three months this spring, has been discontinued because, like the rest of the lines, it lost money. But it is sure the line would be profitable with bigger...
Albert Einstein, corona-haired saint of science who became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and casts his first presidential vote next November, plumped for a Fourth Term: "There is no doubt that in the present international situation it is very dangerous to change leadership...
...Last week the Army told L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc. to stop turning out Springfield rifles and go back to making typewriters. Reason: the Army is now getting enough Garand rifles...