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Instead of accepting the scholarship offered to him by the University of Virginia, Strauss set out to sell shoes for the family firm, headed southward with volumes of Latin poetry-Virgil, Ovid, Horace-packed along with his samples. After four years in the shoe business, he took a train to Washington in 1917 and offered his services as a volunteer worker for Herbert Hoover's Belgian Relief Commission. Drawing no pay (he skimped along on his savings), Strauss worked for Hoover for 2½ years, first as a sort of office boy and then as secretary ("My jewel...
...work well underway and no satellite launching expected for some time, Van Allen was not a man to sit around idly. He got aboard the Navy icebreaker Glacier and headed for Antarctica to measure cosmic rays near the South Magnetic Pole. On Oct. 4, when the Glacier was wallowing southward across the Pacific, a report that the Russians had launched a satellite came over the ship's radio. Van Allen went to work on the Glacier's 20-mc. receiver, and within half an hour it yielded vigorous beeping sounds. That was Sputnik I. The Russians...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--America's second Discoverer satellite roared southward into polar orbit yesterday, setting the stage for a sigantic game of aerial catch in which planes may try to snatch its parachuting nose cone from...
...Answers. To keep out of sight, Gralla and his 650-man crew bypassed the Panama Canal, churned southward and around the Horn, keeping radio silence all the way.-Meanwhile, a five-ship task force-the carrier Tarawa, the destroyer Warrington, the destroyer escorts Hammerberg and Courtney and the oiler Neosho-slipped inconspicuously out of Newport, R.I. and steamed southward. From Norfolk, Va. steamed the destroyer Bearss and the oiler Salamonie. Together, the eight ships made up Task Force 88, under the overall command of the Navy's Rear Admiral Lloyd Montague Mustin, 47 (Annapolis '32), aboard the Tarawa...
...earth is not a sphere. The centrifugal force of its rotation makes it bulge outward at the equator. Since the oceans rotate with the earth, sea level follows the bulge. The Mississippi starts its journey 1,491 ft. above sea level at the latitudes of Minnesota. As it moves southward, its water feels more strongly the lifting effect of the earth's spin. Therefore, it can climb up the bulge, away from the earth's center. When it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it meets the ocean, which has been raised to the same level by the same...