Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Offered as an "outstanding educational program in the form of entertainment of great popular appeal," The Headless Horseman suffered even more from overbilling than it did from the thunderstorm which made its reception almost inaudible. It was written last winter for music students of the Bronxville, N. Y. High School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully...
...possibility that the Hindenburg's commander, Captain Max Pruss, might reveal conflicting facts when he is recovered enough to testify, Dr. Eckener's explanation seemed likely to be accepted as final. He concluded that the disaster was caused: by lightning or static electricity from a small, following thunderstorm, igniting free gas high inside the rear of the envelope. Speaking in German translated by Vice President Frederick W. Meister of American Zeppelin Transport Co., and discarding sabotage in short order, Dr. Eckener reached his conclusion by the following reasoning: "Theoretically I believe there are only three possibilities of such...
...nuzzled in over Long Island to New York City, while six airplanes buzzed around it. With the sun glinting on its silver-grey sides and the four huge red swastikas on its fins, it circled once over Manhattan, then headed for its berth at Lakehurst. But a sharp thunderstorm came up and when he reached the Naval reservation, Captain Pruss took no chances, turned off to sea. At dusk, while a drizzle fell from a sombre sky and a fitful breeze jerked the windsock, the Hindenburg once more poked her nose over Lakehurst. began maneuvering to land. It circled twice...
Helium for Hydrogen-Inquiries by all authorities soon passed over sabotage (incendiary bullets) as the cause of the disaster. Next discussed was static electricity, harges of which all aircraft accumulate, especially when flying in thunderstorm areas. The fact that the Hindenburg's, ground lines had been down for three minutes before the blaze began, thus presumably drawing off all static charges, opposed this theory...
Thus adjured and fortified, the Chamber got down to cases Tuesday afternoon in one of the longest luncheon sessions on convention records. From one o'clock to four, while a thunderstorm swept hail over the Capital, members watched their cigaret butts accumulate, groped to formulate ideas out of their resentment at the long disregarded law which the Supreme Court had upheld. Across Lafayette Park in the White House, President Roosevelt was giving his last press conference before entraining for New Orleans (see p. 15). At the convention tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third...