Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately on his return from the epochal flight to Paris in May 1927, a "group" of sky opportunists snapped up Charles Augustus Lindbergh, made him "technical adviser." By 1929 this group was Transcontinental Air Transport and had the world's No. 1 civil aviator fly part of its first coast-to-coast trip over the route he had charted. When its successor, Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., was formed in 1930 it kept the slogan...
Fast. Flying a 14-cylinder, 1,200 h.p. Twin-Wasp Sever sky that won him the Bendix Trophy for 1937, California's Frank W. Fuller last week whizzed out of Vancouver, crossed 20 miles of Canada, 1,184 miles of U. S. and penetrated 5 miles into Mexico, landing at Agua Caliente 4 hours, 54 minutes after his takeoff. Flyer Fuller cut 34 minutes off the best previous time for linking the three North American nations, claimed to have used but 670 h.p. in his flight...
...earth. Astronomers did not quite share Mr. Korkosz' belief that his machine works as well or nearly as well as a Zeiss instrument but they seemed to feel that any reasonably good projector is better than none, and the Springfield public showed every sign of liking its homemade sky...
Over the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil for six years has hung a continual pall of acrid smoke. Meanwhile, the sky above Medellin, Colombia has been clear. Last week this fact was responsible for the death of a crop control program far older and far bigger than any ever attempted by the New Deal. With a suddenness which upset coffee cups all over the world the Brazilian Government announced that it would abandon its 31-year attempt to limit coffee production, would adopt instead a policy of open competition...
Among the 56 U. S. peaks over 14,000 ft. high, Mt. Whitney's solitary spire, rising 14,495 ft. into the California sky tops them all-highest land point in the nation. On the uplands close by lies Lake Tulainyo, highest U. S. lake. Eighty miles due east is Death Valley, 276 ft. below sea level, lowest, hottest spot in the U. S. Last week Californians celebrated the opening of 17 miles of CCC built roadway, the last link in a highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped...