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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later that day astronomers pieced together the evidence, agreed that a bolide (the biggest kind of meteor), traveling on a west-to-east course just north of Philadelphia, must have exploded and dropped its fragments into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireball | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...bolide is the only noisy type of meteor.* It is said to move at a rate of five to 20 miles a second. As it travels, air piles up in front of it, making a windy whoosh. Air friction turns the outside of the meteor white-hot while the inside remains cold. A few seconds after it hits the earth's atmosphere, the bolide explodes with a bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireball | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...person who watched last year's Crimson team meteor to its astonishing success, can forget Vern Miller, who is now writing a sports column for the Boston Globe Miller will speak at 10:50 o'clock tonight as part of a series of programs resumed from last spring known as the National News Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNAPP TO TALK OF FIGHT ON RUMOR | 9/30/1942 | See Source »

...River Line auctioned off its ships. Last December the boats of Eastern Steamship Line were requisitioned by the Government. Last Sunday the four-decked buff-funneled Arrow, last ship of the Colonial Line, ploughed down the Sound from Providence to New York, to follow its two sister ships (Comet & Meteor) into Government service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Apr. 6, 1942 | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...Seaboard's Silver Meteor and Atlantic Coast Line's Champion, all-coach streamliners which have made the New York-Florida run faster than the fastest Pullmans, had sleepers added to appease Pullman patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faster Trains | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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