Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earth's Curve. Exhibited to the Cleveland scientists by Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, director of research of Eastman Kodak Co., was the first photograph ever taken showing the earth's curvature. Snapped in one-fiftieth of a second from an airplane in South America by Captain Albert W. Stevens, U. S. Army photographer, the picture shows a stretch of 300 miles of pampas beyond which rise the Andes. The distant horizon line of the pampas is curved slightly downward at one end. The picture was taken on film made sensitive to red and infra-red rays (not scattered...
...Last year Union Township paid him $136 for a similar claim. Robert ("Bobby") Carmichael, North Carolina University sophomore, sportive son of Vice President William Donald Carmichael of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., had the New York Evening Graphic (tabloid) run off 200 copies of its tabloid front page bearing a photograph of himself tearing his hair (see cut} under the headline: BOB CARMICHAEL GOES MAD SEARCHING FOR XMAS CARD and over the caption: "BOBBY CARMICHAEL yesterday went crazy working on an idea for a Christmas card. His last words were: 'Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...
Herewith is Subscriber Blake's photograph. Governor-elect Harry Woodring. first Democrat to win the governorship in Kansas since 1922, was born in Elk City in 1889. Only boy in a family of several girls, he early learned crocheting, a feat much stressed by his political opponents in the recent campaign. However, his pop corn venture, his banking success, his Tank Corps experience proved him man enough to be elected State head of the American Legion. Thus both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke...
...went down. It looked as if there might be trouble. Captain Irving Johnson took some notes of that wild homeward journey of the little boat, a 19-day trip through seven fearful storms that amounted practically to one continuous storm. He had even held a camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours...
...flyer-all lifting peans of superlative praise for Kingsford-Smith. Some, like "Al" Williams, called him the "outstand-ing pilot of the age." Others more conservative, like Germany's Herman Koehl, expressed their "greatest admiration." A conspicuous paragraph in the alphabetical list was that beneath the name and photograph of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. It read simply: "No answer." Observers reflected that Liberty might have gone out of its way to be kind to Col. Lindbergh by omitting all reference to him, by presenting its list merely as "those who did answer." But they also reflected that Liberty...