Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country." Although it should be able to make no m.p.h., Union Pacific will not permit it to exceed 90 m.p.h.. which is 10 to 20 m.p.h. faster than other U. S. expresses operate. The new train may make the long run between Omaha and Los Angeles in 30 hr. The steam journey now takes 48 hr. Speed, Union Pacific men hope, will provide effective competition against air travel. Cheap operating costs may beat bus transportation...
...William Feldhusen, Stapleton, N. Y. garage mechanic, in his Class C outboard motorboat Miss Staten Island: the sixth annual 132¼ mi. Albany-to-New York race; in 3 hr. 15 min. 22 sec. Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left...
...movement. If the balance wheel's speed is the same as the reflector's, the arm looks stationary (stroboscopic effect). Otherwise a double image appears and indicates that the watch must be readjusted. In a one-minute test the time microscope shows a watch's 24-hr, rate to within one-fifth of a second, thus tremendously speeding up the jeweler's regulation of watches...
When President Roosevelt last fortnight declared by radio that 90% of the cotton textile industry was good-hearted at bottom, he was only indulging in squirely politeness. Last week the directors of Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc. plumped for a 40-hr, work week and an 80-hr. weekly limitation on mill operations. But George A. Sloan, the Institute's able young head, was able to muster only ten of the industry's 30 million spindles for the Institute's plan.* He announced that when he had mustered 20 million spindles he would ask Mr. Roosevelt...
...Slipher let the strange, faint light sift through spectroscopes. After 100-hr. exposures he caught blue and violet bands in his spectrographs. Other exposures showed red light in "surprising strength." More recent observations demonstrate that zodiacal light contains the entire spectrum from red to violet. The assumption is that "the strange light originates at some distance above the Earth's surface, in a layer of considerable thickness. The Earth's atmosphere is playing a considerable role in the production of these radiations." The light seems to be a transformation of sunlight (or starlight) rather than a reflection...