Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Round & round over New York City one noon last week wheeled some 100 private planes to draw the city's eyes to the sky, its feet to New York's first aviation show since 1930. New Yorkers, 95% male and 50% under 20, responded with a will. They trooped into Grand Central Palace, gaped at 32 planes, milled around 100 exhibition booths, badgered salesmen and demonstrators with questions they could not always answer. With 1936 sales up 85% over 1935 on a gross business of $76,805,000 in ships and parts, U. S. air-crafters beamed...
Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...
Cook will dismantle his equipment, take it and his associates somewhere in the Southern hemisphere, probably Argentina, to do the Southern sky. "I want to produce the finest star atlas ever made," said this ambitious amateur last week, "and pve a copy to every important observatory in the world...
...bigger than a page of newsprint), covers 1/40 of the visible sky at each exposure, shows about 400,000 stars on one plate. With this giant apparatus Dr. Cook intends to photograph the entire sky. After six months of precise adjustments, the camera got into action just before New Year's Day. Since then thick weather has ruined every night but a few for sky-map-ping, but last week three plates had been successfully exposed and developed. Thirty-seven more plates will be needed to mop up the Northern sky. Then...
...Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great fight that followed, the god and the demon threw winds and lightning at each other, the forces of Earth, Air and Sky. Even Shiva's arms which are serpents, did not avail him. Finally in desperation he struck the demon with the club Vishnu had given him, and won the fight...