Word: bermudas
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...Navy was off first. At Perth, West Australia, a twin-engined Lockheed Neptune patrol bomber, stripped of all but the most rudimentary radio, set out for the U.S. or beyond. Secretly the crew of the Truculent Turtle hoped to get to Bermuda, half way round the world...
When the U.S. and Britain signed the Bermuda air agreement, the fight for recognition of the five freedoms of the air* seemed to have been won. But U.S. air officials forgot one thing which the British did not. Neither nation was committed to write the five freedoms into its pacts with other countries...
Last week in London a U.S. team headed by CAB Chairman James M. Landis achieved one. Henceforth the U.S. and Britain, according to a joint Anglo-American statement, will follow the basic principles adopted at Bermuda-i.e., to sign no bilateral agreements that do not include the five freedoms...
...respect the summer was better than usual: there had been almost no "Bermuda highs" - the masses of stagnant air which often loiter for days or weeks over the Atlantic. Slowly revolving in a clockwise direction, they plague the coast al areas with sweltering humid weather blown off the tepid Gulf Stream, make Manhattan seem like Manila or Singapore...
Bitter enemies of the Bermuda highs are the "polar air masses" which bulge down from Canada. Their cool air creeps below warmer air masses, lifts them off the ground, wringing the moisture out of them in belts of chilly rain. When a polar air mass finally dominates the sky, the weather turns cool and clear...