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...small hours; in Saigon (French Indo-China) in the morning;" in San Francisco at sunset; and also at Long Island in the evening. The evening of departure and arrival was the same. The three circumnavigators who went westward were back in six seconds. The three circumnavigators who went eastward were back in five seconds. They were three SSS's and three CCC's sent out by radio telegraph, racing around the World in relays. Really their time was poor-most of it being taken by the frail humans who relayed them on their way. The actual ether time...
...moving object in the heavens by Dr. Walter Baade of the Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf, Germany. It has not yet been discovered what the object is, since it is extremely small, being of the tenth magnitude. The object appears to be moving extremely rapidly, having a mean daily motion eastward of 4 minutes, 56 seconds, and 40 minutes of are south. According to Dr. Baade, the object when first sighted was in right ascension, 21 hours, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, declination north 15 degrees 28 minutes...
...loadings hold up very well and, owing to rural prosperity, promise to continue so when Eastward-bound grain cars return West loaded with merchandise...
...couple out of Reykjavik by a few minutes, did not turn up in Ivigtut that night. The Americans had last seen him as they neared the Greenland fog banks and felt sure he had not overshot his mark. Searchers from Ivigtut cruised the perilous icebound coast to eastward, Esquimaux trotted along the shore, looking, looking. Late Sunday night, 125 miles from shore, floating helplessly with a dead motor, Locatelli and his companions were sighted amid the waves by the U. S. cruiser Richmond, were taken aboard worn with fatigue but sound. To save the patrol ships further trouble, Locatelli scuttled...
...York and Chicago, Chicago and Cheyenne, Cheyenne and San Francisco) and 24 cents an ounce for the entire trip. It will be a deep source of chagrin to stamp collectors that no special stamps will be issued. The westward voyage will require 34 hours and 45 minutes, the eastward trip 32 hours and 5 minutes. The discrepancy is due partly to helpful winds on the return trip, partly to the fact that westward the pilot is beating the sun, eastward he is travelling in a direction opposite to that of the sun, and therefore flies faster over Mother Earth...