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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 »

...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 »

...bubble broke when some prosaic scientist suggested that the meteor was only an airplane's running light. The astronomers retired to their telescopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronomers Find Comet Is Only Airplane Tailight | 4/17/1941 | See Source »

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