Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smithsonian has a new sun-observing station on Mount St. Katherine in Egypt, where work will continue at least through 1937 on funds donated by John August Roebling, bridge-building scion. First analysis of the Egyptian records showed them equal in excellence to those of the Smithsonian's two older sun stations at Montezuma, Chile and Table Mountain, Calif...
Favorite advertising of U. S. filling-station owners is a zoo. Favorite animal in George Langley's filling-station zoo near Ellsworth, Me. was a big black bear which he had raised from cubhood eleven years ago, taught to roll over and sit up for peanuts. One morning last week when Langley went into the pen to give the bear breakfast it pounced on him, chased him 100 yd., knocked him down, mauled him to death. When Langley's hired man ran up with a shovel, the bear killed...
Among Dunbar tenants who awaited the disposition of these matters were Tap Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, Sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Esquire Cartoonist E. Simms Campbell, Admiral Peary's North Pole Companion Matthew Henson, Chief James Williams of Grand Central Station redcaps...
...joint Harvard-U. S. Weather Bureau weather station at the summit of Mt. Washington, N. H., which since 1932 has supplied important observations used in forecasting for the Boston area, will be enabled to continue this winter as a result of recent financial support from the state of New Hampshire totaling about...
Located on the highest peak in New England, this station has for four years served as a valuable weather sentry for New England, warning of the approach of air masses over this area, and thus aiding in the improvement of local forecasting...