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...shut in, the flyers grew exhausted, and finally they turned back from Eugene, Ore., landed at Pearson Field, the Army's air base at Vancouver, Wash. Bewhiskered, red-eyed and tottery, they stumbled from their plane, having covered about 5,288 miles in 63 hr., 17 min.-second longest flight in history* and one of the most important in charting an uncharted airway. The trio dragged themselves to the home of Brigadier General George C. Marshall, field commandant, drank his cognac, gobbled his breakfast, used his razor, then fell into his beds while the world applauded...
...whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon's diameter. Four spots of red solar prominences appeared plainly during the eclipse. The planet Venus, which appeared even before totality, shone; also Mercury and several stars of first magnitude. The sky appeared a deep blue as did the water even at the beginning...
...After this tiring session, longest of the present Congress only because of the numerous roll calls, weary Maury Maverick of Texas began agitating for a mechanical vote-recording device in the House...
From Canton Island in mid-Pacific short wave broadcasts came at noon and at 3 PM Boston time. At 6 PM a third. broadcast came from the coast of Peru. The sun was blotted out by the moon for the longest time at a landless point in the Pacific...
Referring to the last three lines centre column p. 39, TIME, May 24: you say the Coronation program was "the longest continuous program in radio history." We question this in view of the fact that on March 24, 1934, General Petroleum Corp. of California through its advertising agency Smith & Drum, Inc. introduced Mobilgas to the Pacific Coast with a radio program over all stations of the [then] Columbia Don Lee network which ran from 7:30 a.m. until midnight. The first 9½ hours and the last 3½ hours of this broadcast were continuous. Occasional interruptions between...