Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the sky is absolutely clear, radiation from the ground is maximum, and the thermometer should theoretically go down to 60 below or less. Actually a drop of 47° below ground temperature is the greatest yet recorded. On a foggy night the moisture blanket prevents radiation and there is no drop in the thermometer. On a partly cloudy night the thermometer records the passage of clouds, rises as much as 20° within four minutes when a cloud passes over. The molecules of water in the air, whether as droplets or as invisible humidity, reflect heat waves from...
...This blanket conservatism was proper enough. But it understated the long-term outlook for some of the company's juiciest properties. I.T. & T. has poured $62,000,000 into Compañia Telefónica Nacional de Españia, famed in the Spanish Revolution for its indestructible Madrid office building.* Telefónica has been doing all right, although not for its parent. The state of I.T. & T.'s $40,000,000 investment in the European properties of International Standard Electric is more obscure: its manufacturing plants in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France are now presumably...
With a vast fleet of Igor Sikorsky's newly perfected helicopters, Northeast planned to blanket New England from Manhattan to Fort Kent, Me., with a local airmail and express service operated from the rooftops of post offices and railroad stations in 400 cities and hamlets. Because the helicopter can fly straight up, straight down, backward, forward, horizontally, remain stationary in the air, and be brought to an immediate stop, any flat roof surface no larger than 9 by 12 ft. could serve as an adequate air station. Northeast would connect New England towns by direct helicopter service with main...
...December ten men, five women and two boys tried it again. All but three of them had homemade snowshoes. They carried a blanket apiece and "minute rations" that must last six days. The first day they made four miles. The second day they crossed the divide, but they were snowblind and had only an ounce of food a day. Their feet froze. By Christmas Eve, they had been tramping nine days, two days without food. They had lost the trail. "To go on they must live, to live they must eat, but there was no food. But there was food...
...officer personnel stationed at Harvard are included in the blanket invitation recently extended by the Cambridge Teachers' Club for an Army-Navy Officers Dance to be held in the Commander Hotel next Saturday night at 8 o'clock...