Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blazing into heat & light, that as far as we can see the universe is expanding, and some eon may become dull chaos, as the Cambridge physicists reason. But, if we use Einsteinian concepts, we realize that heat & light are ponderable, that the heat & light of an airplane in flight differ subtly from the heat & light of a household furnace, that gravity may entrain the heat & light emitted by blazing stars. In such case, gravity catches hold of the whole expanding universe, pulls it together until constrained energy becomes too tense to hold. Thereupon a new cycle of expansion ensues...
...skies there fell to snow-starved birds, one day last fortnight, manna in 1-lb. paper bags. Dr. Philip Gootenberg, president of New Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen, had thought up the idea. The U. S. Department of Commerce had waived its regulation against throwing things from airplanes in flight. Paterson's Wright Aeronautical Corp. had lent a plane and crack pilot. Three times Dr. Gootenberg soared up from Paterson, flew low over inaccessible, snow-covered woodlands, pelting down 750 bags filled with corn, wheat, millet, rye. Consolidated Sportsmen was also busy last week adding 75 bird self-feeders...
Three events were run off in the meet, all for flight duration. One was for Baby R. O. G. (rise-off-ground) types, one for fuselage models, one for "open sticks." The Baby R. 0. G. class was limited to models of 30 sq. in. maximum wing area, 8 in. length. One after another 20 "babies" took off from the floor, made wide spirals toward the arched ceiling, propellers flailing the air. One after another fluttered floorward, rubber motors slack, to land on paper-thin balsa-wood wheels, until at the end of 7½ min. only one was still...
...first time in many years great flocks of fat, black & white seabirds, flying toward the St. Lawrence River basin and death. They were Arctic murres (also called guillemots), cousins of the little auks who were stormbound in Manhattan last month (TIME, Dec. 5). The cause of their periodic suicide flight is a mystery which Canadian ornithologists hope this year to solve...
Like the little auk, the murre feeds on ocean Crustacea, starves inland. Last week Dr. William Reid Blair, director of New York's Bronx Zoo, thought the murres' death flight might be caused by a cyclical failure in their food supply...