Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newport News, Va. It was a boiling hot day under a blazing hot sun, but Texans thrive in such weather. There were two good Texans looking the part, Senators Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally. Through the crowd came tripping a little Southern maid, all flowers, Miss Elizabeth Holcombe (daughter of a former Mayor of Houston) followed by a maid of honor. She struck the steady prow of the monster gingerly with a flask of bottled water. She struck again. No damage was done. Up stepped manly Homer Lenoir Ferguson, President of Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (see col. 1), took...
News values were vague. Dissertations upon the hot weather in Philadelphia, arrival of muslins from the Orient, occupied as much space as his "dearly beloved Majesty" addressing Parliament...
Ashore, the Coldwater's wireless message caused mystification. From nowhere along the coast had a trans-Atlantic flight attempt been reported. Sometimes Navy flyers go far to sea from Hampton Roads, but not on dirty nights, and no Navy flyers were missing. No weather bureau had been asked for trans-Atlantic weather reports, or even for the weather between the U. S. and Bermuda (a flight which has never been made from west to east...
...linear distance of the Spokane-New York-Spokane shuttle is 7,200 miles. The air distance traveled by the Sun God was approximately 10,000 miles. The added distance resulted from the pilots having to detour some bad weather spots. "At Rock Springs in the heart of the Rocky Mountains we found it necessary to fly between ten and twelve thousand feet. . . . Bad air at North Platte made refueling almost impossible. . . . Over the Allegheny Mountains we got the customary storms. We would start to fly west and get a storm signal. We would then start back for New York...
...Lena. For 300 miles passengers saw no towns, just forests, rivers and swamps flecked occasionally by a typee. For some hours the ship lost radio contact with civilization, then picked up a Japanese station, then the U. S. Naval station at Peiping (Peking). She was near the arctic circle. Weather was chilly, the moon ruddy...