Word: sunspots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss of U. A. L.'s Trip 6. It was the most damning official criticism of plane and ground crews in U. S. airline history. It also recommended unprecedented penal ties for both. After the crash, Pilot Stead's explanation was that he got lost because sunspot activity caused radio "long skip." made remote radio stations drown out ranges on his course (TIME, Dec. 12). The hard-headed experts of the Air Safety Board summarily laid the crash down to a mounting series of fantastic bungles, found no support for his explanation...
Apropos of the last sentence in the write-up in TIME,* you might inform your Science editor that it may be amusing to note that sunspot numbers did rise from a low of 56 on June 18 to a high of 128 on June 29. The average for June 1938, however, is 97 as compared with 144 for July 1937, which appears to be the record for this cycle...
...Depression II may be linked to the current sunspot downgrade. But no temporary outburst of sunspots was reported to accompany last week's ebullient stockmarket...
When Howard Robard Hughes took off from Floyd Bennett Field last week (see pp. 36, 43) engineers feared that he might be flying out into radio silence. There was sunspot trouble. Only a few-hours before the take-off RCA's mighty Riverhead, L. I., communication station had a complete wipe-out of shortwave signals. The Hughes route (a northern circle notably poor for radio transmission) did not look promising...
...Stetson is the author of Sunspots and Their Effects (TIME, Nov. 22), in which he ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology through such channels as vitamin intake, electrical effects on nerve impulses, electrified particles in the air. Hence, since business activity is "fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect stockmarket prices and other indices of prosperity. From 1929 through the Depression bottom of 1932 to the highs of 1937, the correspondence between active sunspots and booming business has been remarkably close. Last week it was also seen that the July 1937 sunspot peak preceded...