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Another factor affecting totality duration is that the shadow travels slowest at noon, fastest near the beginning and end of the eclipse day. Earth rotates eastward at about 1,040 m.p.h. at the Equator. The moon's eastward orbit carries the lunar shadow in the same direction at just about twice that speed, so that it rapidly overtakes the terrestrial rotation. At noon, when the shadow is perpendicular, the speed is 1,060 m.p.h.; earlier and later, when the cone of darkness impinges at an angle, it goes faster-depending on the acuteness of the angle...
Second most important U. S. Russian is Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky, who lost a leg for Russia while flying in the War, has lately zoomed into military importance by producing what is generally regarded as the world's fastest pursuit plane. Last week he flew his chunky ship from Belleville, Ill. to Dayton, Ohio at an average speed of 321 m.p.h. Other prominent Russian designers...
...beer to visitors, but the pride of the French navy, the Dunkerquc. Only official visitors were allowed on board, and even they were rushed below decks as quickly as possible. Though only half the size of Britain's ponderous Hood, the newly completed Dunkerque, spies insist, is the fastest and most heavily armored battleship afloat...
Born. To Glenn Cunningham, 27, world's fastest miler, and Mrs. Margaret Speir Cunningham: a daughter; in Newton, Kans...
...means be the only preliminaries to this year's Cup races. One result of the pre-launching negotiations was a rule which for the first time allows the challenging yacht club to share what has heretofore been the special privilege of the challenged club: that of picking the fastest available yacht after a trial series in U. S. waters. En route to the U. S. last week were two yachts, with one of which Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hopes to win this summer the prize that U. S. skippers have successfully defended...