Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
Down out of a squally sky one morning last week coasted an oil-streaked airplane to land on Miami's Municipal Airport. Out jumped two grinning occupants, Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis and Helen Richey. For ten days-while an Armenian archbishop was being murdered, a train collision was killing 200 persons in France, a blizzard was sweeping the East, George Dunlap was winning his eighth midwinter golf tournament, a Rumanian premier was being assassinated, the Metropolitan Opera was opening, Jockey Jack Westrope was riding his 300th winner-they had been flying around in circles to set a new women...
Millions of U. S. citizens have heard the thunderous "Voice of the Sky" booming advertising sales-talk down from above. Millions more have read the advertising slogans which blaze in 6-ft. Neon letters from the underwing of another huge plane. Lately at a Long Island airport the stupendous vocal cords of the "Voice of the Sky" were extracted from its old plane and grafted into the Neon-light plane. Last week the grafted ship was put through dress rehearsals over Manhattan & vicinity...
When the "Voice of the Sky" was new, it charged advertisers $2.000 per display hour. The sign-carrying plane alone got $750. The combined apparatus may now be hired for $250 per hour. First to do so was Gold Dust Corp. From the dark skies the plane bellowed forth a musical program while its ruby letters flashed the alternating lines...
...telescope, which cost $200,000, is one inch larger than that at Bloemfontein, South Africa, where Harvard has an observing station to cover the southern sky. This African telescope will be used to check results with the Oak Ridge station, also, as their fields overlap...