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...tremendous disaster. The plane has a great military interest apart from its gigantic size, as it will carry a bomb 4 tons in weight, the biggest ever raised in the air. According to the designer such a bomb dropped in the center of a city will dig a crater 50 feet in diameter and destroy or damage all buildings within half a mile radius. The plane with an efficient crew will thus be the most formidable offensive weapon ever devised...
...tourists will then proceed to the coast by way of Seattle, Wash., and Tacoma, Ore., to the Mount Rainier National Park, and from there they will visit Portland, Oregon, and spend two or three days in the Crater Lake Park. A trip south to San Francisco, Cal., and vicinity will include short visits to Mount Tamalpais, the Muir Woods, and the Golden Gate Park...
CALIFORNIA: A new crater broke out on the east slope of Mount Lassen, which is in violent eruption. Mount Lassen, in the extreme northern part of California, is the only active volcano in any of the states. It became active...
...topography of the moon's surface, which consists mainly of innumerable crater-like circles and arcs varying in size from several hundred miles across to less than is telescopically visible, is explained on a somewhat new theory by Colonel John Millis, army engineer and geologist, writing in Popular Astronomy. Rejecting the theory that the moon's features could be the product of volcanic action, he believes that the satellite was formed by a coalescence of masses coming together by mutual gravitation. If, then, meteors fell into the moon while the crust was cooling, they would penetrate the surface...
...last eruption took place in March 1921, when Professor Atl guided a party of 30 persons to visit the crater. "Pop" exhibited its proclivity for violence by killing one of the party with a shower of rocks...