Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though lunar eclipses are less frequent than solar eclipses, more people see them because the darkened moon is visible from a whole hemisphere of earth. Totality of this week's lunar eclipse lasted 1 hr. 23 min. For a brief interval on the Atlantic seaboard a remarkable phenomenon was on view. The moon rose, fully eclipsed, six minutes before sunset. Thus for that time both bodies were visible where there was a clear view from horizon to horizon. Explanation...
...moon rose. But atmospheric refraction raises the sun's apparent position in the sky by more than one of its diameters. Thus for six minutes after the eclipsed moon rose the sun's image remained above the western horizon. This was the first time the Atlantic seaboard had seen such a thing in the 20th Century, although it was visible elsewhere in the U. S. in 1920, twice...
...Extended its easy credit policy to railroad equipment trust certificates. Heretofore, with the exception of the World War period, the Interstate Commerce Commission has always required a 25% down payment by railroads on equipment purchases financed by equipment trust certificates. Last August ICC allowed Seaboard Air Line Ry., which is in reorganization, to finance 90% of a $1,671,000 equipment trust issue. Last week in a supplementary decision ICC let the Seaboard finance the other 10%. ICCommissioner Claude R. Porter dissented on the grounds that such a policy would impair the market for equipment trusts...
Probably the most fortunate of all the yacht clubs on the Eastern seaboard, the Harvard Yacht Club came out of the recent hurricane with its fleet of three dinghies safely stowed in Weld Boat House...
More than 60% of the thousands who took to the air when last week's wind and rain washed out transportation facilities on the eastern seaboard (see p. 11) had never flown before. Between Manhattan and Boston, American Airlines, only line flying the 200 mile route, carries about 200 passengers on its ten scheduled flights back and forth. But on each of the first two days following the hurricane 1,000 passengers were flown from Manhattan to Boston alone and perhaps half that number carried from Boston to Manhattan by a combined service of four lines. By this week...