Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunched in the drafty boxcar that bitter night Derelict Driscoll thought of railroad tycoons in their private cars, mansions, soft beds. He bundled some oil waste between the car's walls, struck a match. Safely out of the yards, he watched the flames redden the sky. He felt better...
...potato, exclaiming: "The Blackshirts are too exotic for me. Good-by." More recently, as deftly as he could, he has transformed his praise of Hitler statesmanship into a warning against Hitler power. His Daily Mail has bristled with raucous articles entitled "The Coming Air War," "Armaments First," "The Blazing Sky," "We Need War Planes...
...Kansas City the TWA dispatcher advised his line's famed Douglas Sky Chief, eastbound from Los Angeles, to try a landing at an emergency field 135 mi. to the north. For more than an hour Pilot Harvey Bolton cruised over Missouri, his radio transmitter dead, looking for a "hole" in the thick fog. His fuel was almost gone when, about 4 a.m., Pilot Bolton roused his eleven passengers with a shout of "Buckle your belts tight!" and nosed down for a blind landing...
That afternoon in Washington, Senators wept openly and a Congressional recess was declared. Same day Manhattan newspapers carried display advertising of a "new, faster Sky Chief," pictures of another TWAirliner which last week flew from Los Angeles to New York non-stop in 11 hr. 5 min., broke the transcontinental transport record by half an hour. First Douglas to crack up in the U. S., Sky Chief's misfortune seemed clearly due to weather, not construction...
...that another and unrelated spectrum shift existed (the Doppler effect), due to the motion of the star away from or toward the observer. Last week the same Dr. Trumpler announced that he had solved the difficulty by measuring the redshift of nine "O" stars (hottest, brightest, heaviest in the sky) moving along in clusters with other stars. The redshift of these nine showed a marked excess over that of their companions which could not be due to dissimilar motion, must therefore be due to the restraining effect of their powerful gravitational fields on their radiated light...