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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago 52 3:26 " St. Paul 51 3:15 "; St. Louis 60 3:29 "; Atlanta 64 3:43 " New Orleans 76 3:44 " Denver 71 2:09 " Salt Lake City 77 1:56 " Seattle 74 12:31 " San Francisco 96 12:44 " Los Angeles 99 12:57 " San Diego 100 12:58 " The Yerkes Observatory expedition (TIME, Sept. 3), in charge of Director Edwin B. Frost, is financed by William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing-gum man) with a gift of $5,000, and occupies sites on Santa Catalina Island (directly in the path of totality), which is owned by Mr. Wrigley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What to See Today | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...coming eclipse will be about 100 miles wide. It will pass in a wide curve across the Pacific southeasterly from Kamchatka, touching the mainland of the U. S. at only two points?Point Concepción (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly in the path of totality, and one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Shadow | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

...Wilson Observatory expedition, of the Carnegie Institute, of Pasadena, Cal., headed by Dr. Walter S. Adams, will observe the eclipse from two stations besides the main observatory, including one at Point Lonia, near San Diego. About 98.5% of the sun's disk will be covered at Mt. Wilson, and observations will be made there with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Shadow | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

...airplane in flight was refuelled at San Diego for the first time in the history of aviation. A quartet of Army officers, after much practice, succeeded in passing a fresh supply of gasoline from one plane to another flying forty feet below at the same speed of 90 miles an hour. The fuel was passed through a 40-foot steel wire-incased rubber hose into the tank of the lower plane, and so perfect was the maneuver that not a drop of gasoline was scattered- and gasoline on hot exhaust pipes might spell disaster. The experiment was carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Garage | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...edition appeared, accordingly, when only early mail editions of other New York newspapers were on hand. This was not The Times' first venture of the kind. Some copies of The Times were carried by Lieutenants Macready and Kelly on their coast to coast flight−appearing in San Diego, Calif., on the afternoon of the day following publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aeroplane Editions | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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