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...SKIES EIGHT TENTHS OVERCAST WITH SCATTERED SQUALLS AND VISIBILITY LIMITED TO THREE MILES...
...COURSE 224 DEGREES TRUE NINE TENTHS OVERCAST AT 1,000 FREQUENT SQUALLS WIND ZERO...
Unfortunately a number who went to the Observatory Thursday to see stars were sadly disappointed by the overcast skies. One eager maiden anxious not to miss the wonders of the heavens took a taxi in the Square directing the driver to the Harvard Observatory. "Hurry." Evidently the driver thought she was a budding Annie J. Cannon and set off on a thirty-mile drive to the Blue Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass. As soon as the meter read over $2.00, the astrophile began to wonder, but the fare was $5.40 from the Square to Bond Street...
...work was hindered in Cambridge by the number overcast nights and imperfect atmospheric conditions resulting from dust street illumination, smoke and uneven heating of the air. It was then decided to erect a new station for their work here in the Northern Hemisphere. This new station is located at Harvard, Massachusetts, at a place called Oak Ridge about 27 miles north-west of Cambridge...
...water. (The control car is shaped like a boat.) Another engine operates a blower to force air into the envelope and help maintain its shape. The third drives a windlass for lowering and raising a sub-cloud car. The sub-cloud car, streamlined and camouflaged to blend into an overcast sky, can be lowered 1,000 ft. below the ship for observation and photography. A telephone wire runs through the core of the suspension cable. Contract speed of the TC-13 was not made public, is supposed to be about...