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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current issue of TIME (May 29) under Aeronautics I was somewhat surprised at some of the statements. In the first place, if I stay on earth till June 6 I will have been here 63 years. I have been in the balloon business over 30 years. I have never filled a bag in ten minutes, and it takes more than $1.30 to inflate one of our bags. I have them from 60 ft. to 95 ft. The larger will carry two riders, usually a man and a woman. We have done all stunts mentioned and a great many others...
Scientists were just about as much surprised as the Roxbury trustees. Among his colleagues, Professor Conant has always been regarded as one who would be faithful to science forever, a dashing and daring fellow rather than a plodder, a little unorthodox, perhaps, but wedded to chemistry. "Why on earth--?" asked his intimates. "I guess it's my sense of adventure," he replied. It is generally agreed he is a great loss to science. In research, his guesses at explanations and results were uncannily accurate. His students claimed, a bit resentfully, that he had an intuitive flair for chemistry, as some...
Stars look redder than most astrophysical criteria indicate that they actually are. This apparent astral rubrication might be due to 1) the speeding of stars away from Earth (the Doppler effect of lengthening waves) or 2) the scattering of starlight by star dust and star gases which permeate space...
...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...
...from one John Tranum, professional 'chute jumper in England, who fell farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated a stop watch. Still falling, at 144 m.p.h., he took time to dry his goggles. As his body dropped into denser atmosphere, its speed was slowed to about 120 m.p.h. Not until he was down...