Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first China Clipper transpacific air mail to Hongkong, Cinemactress Luise Rainer (The Good Earth) sent Mme Chiang Kai-shek six peach trees...
Radio programs faded last week. Long-distance telephone conversations gurgled. Telegrams stuttered along the wires. Ships' compasses jiggled. And the Northern Lights flapped like curtains in a storm. It all reflected, said Dr. A. G. McNish, authority on the earth's magnetism, in Washington last week for a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the worst magnetic storm in a century. This in turn was due to a great magnetic storm which swept across the face of the sun four days earlier and sent a gust of electric corpuscles toward the earth at 270 mi. per sec. Such...
...spoke Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution to predict that droughts on earth will cease with 1939's storms on the sun. Said he: "A double solar cycle of 46 years appears to be particularly important in precipitation. We seem justified in expecting a severe recurrence of droughts following the year...
There is still plenty to be learned about all these forces, but that did not prevent Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard from announcing last week that they had discovered a brand-new cosmic particle which the heavens rain upon the earth. It has a negative electrical charge like an electron, but seems to weigh ten times as much and have a thousand times as much energy, easily passing through four Geiger counters, two cloud chambers and seven inches of lead...
...miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...