Word: topping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astronomical observatory, perched serenely on its remote mountain top and housing almost priceless equipment and records, should be-and is-among the safest places in the world. The steel dome and frame conduct lightning harmlessly to the ground. Steel and concrete cannot be set afire by a careless smoker. The cleared area around an observatory site would stop a forest fire short of damage to the instruments. A telescope anchored through concrete is practically earthquake-proof. Windstorms and hail are trifling annoyances...
Last week a spectacular and unprecedented accident happened to the University of California's famed Lick Observatory, first of the big mountain-top star-stations, perched on triple-peaked, 4,209-ft. Mt. Hamilton. An army attack plane, flying on instruments through fog, hit the main observatory building like a rifle bullet aimed at a bull...
...Except for normal commercial transactions and British Government payments for arms purchases, Britain, possessor of the world's No. 2 gold hoard (about $3,000,000,000 plus the hidden treasure of India and the mines of the Rand), will no longer add to the top-heavy U. S. gold cache ($15,867,000,000), some 60% of the world's supply. This means that English speculators will no longer be free to unload gold, which is of no present use to the U. S., in exchange for valuable U. S. securities and commodities...
...drawing boards that would revolutionize military aviation. It did. The ship was the Martin B10, a two-motored monoplane. With a range of 1,800 miles and a bomb load of 2,400 pounds, it could pull away from any pursuit ship then in the air at a top speed of 250 miles an hour. The U. S. Army took 151 of them, the Argentine 35, The Netherlands 117. The last of the Netherlands order is being set up for flight this week in Java. Altogether 340 B-10s rolled out through the factory doors, to be flown to nearby...
...Club is an international association of writers. Its members include most of the world's top poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists. First international president was John Galsworthy. President now is Jules Romains. Founded 18 years ago in England, P. E. N. has spent 17 years of its decorous, softspoken, ineffectual existence passing futile resolutions and trying to make next year's meeting better than the last. Nations might rise or fall, populations perish, wars rage, but P. E. N. merely raised its penciled eyebrows, insisted that the writer's business is to write and that writing...