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...minus its apparent, reddened light is both a measure of the blue light lost into particles of matter between the stars and a measure of the number of such particles. From these factors Dr. Struve calculates there is not more than one particle of star dust in each 15 cu. in. of interstellar space. If that is so, then all the star dust along the 25-million-million-mile line between Earth and Proxima Centauri, nearest star except the Sun, could be packed in a half-inch cube...
...With the Akron gone, the Los Angeles in dead storage, the Macon already assigned to Sunnyvale, the Navy could not afford to maintain the eastern base. Besides the sugarloaf dock at Sunnyvale, a huge landscaped oval encompasses some 40 lesser structures: a helium repurification plant, a 2,000,000-cu. ft. helium tank (like a city gas tank), two other tanks each holding 2,000,000 cu. ft. under pressure; a locomotive shed, ice-making plant, quarters for married officers, "BOQ"' (bachelor officers' quarters), enlisted men's barracks, recreation building, all in Spanish architecture. Most remarkable...
...cash for planes of 125 h. p. or less, was won by Roy Liggett of Wichita. In a tiny red Cessna with clipped wings and retractable landing gear he easily led the field around the triangular course at 194 m.p.h. The Curtiss Trophy, for planes of 500 to 800 cu. in. piston displacement, went also to a Cessna flown by Alton B. Sherman of Hyannis, Mass...
...many years Kansas has been the most troublesome province in the Doherty empire. Year ago a utilities battle-of-the-century loomed when the Kansas Public Service Commission ordered the Doherty pipe-line companies to lower their rates on gas from 40? per 1,000 cu. ft. to 30? and Governor Harry Woodring forbade the sale of Cities Service securities in Kansas...
...been reported, the majority of women flyers have not fought to enter all events on an equality with men. What they did work for and gain in 1931-and take advantage of-was the privilege of flying in competitive planes with the larger displacement motors. (For several years 800 cu. in. was the limit except in the Aerol Trophy Race...