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...those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves. But distance lessens their strength. If a pilot started straying off his course, the bulb on his dashboard, a "pilot light" indeed, would grow dim. As he steered back to his proper course, the bulb would brighten cheerfully...
...Louis, Mo., last January, Mr. Kelly roosted for the record period of seven days and one hour -much of the time amid chill, sleet and snow. The experience thus gained caused him to make elaborate preparations before climbing aloft last week...
...flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy at all. I felt just as if I was driving a motor car over a smooth road, only it was easier. Then it began to get light and the clouds got higher. . . . Sleet began to cling to the plane. That worried me a great deal and I debated whether I should keep on or go back. I decided I must not think any more about going back...
...Thank all of us!" but the silky locks wagged again. No, Mr. Stokowski was going to make distinctions. He looked up at the cheapest seats and said: "I have frequently ridden past the Academy two or three hours before a concert, and seen you standing there ... in cold, snow, sleet and rain. This shows you love music. . . . It has meant a lot to me. . . . Encouraged...
...Coolidge is still in doubt about 1928, he should consult no crystal balls, no mystics, no political prophets, no embattled farmers?but he should go straight to the office of Professor Charles F. Marvin, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who is the last word on rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window panes in 1927 and 1928, meteorologists must predict defeat for Republicans...