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What made the winter so odd? The Weather Bureau, which would like everyone to remember that it saw just such a winter shaping up as early as November, says that the same basic condition caused both the western cold and the eastern warmth. The villain, says William H. Klein of the bureau's Extended Forecast Section, was an "excess of [air] mass" in the subpolar regions of the Western Hemisphere and a "deficit of mass" in the subtropics. This unbalanced condition, favoring the southward movement of cold air, upset the whole air circulation...
...Weather Bureau refuses to say whether the winters of the U.S. as a whole are getting warmer or colder, or what effect sunspots have on them. It suspects that a cold cycle may be in the making, but it is not sure yet. "Come back in 400 years," said Forecaster Ivan Tannehill. "We'll have all the answers then about sunspots and cycles...
...widely held popular notion, man's tinkering with atomic energy has nothing to do with the funny weather. The energy released by atom bombs is vanishingly small compared to the forces of weather. "To counteract the energy maintaining a first-class hurricane," says Harry Wexler, the bureau's chief of Special Scientific Services, "you would have to explode 20 atom bombs per second...
...price cuts ahead, if manufacturers wanted to keep their enormous output from piling up. In January, the Department of Commerce reported, manufacturers' sales had taken more than seasonal drops, and inventories had jumped by $400 million, about twice the seasonal increase. Unemployment was still on the rise. The Bureau of the Census reported an estimated total of 3,200,000 jobless in February, highest since 1942. But the rate of increase had slowed up. New claims for unemployment compensation have dropped sharply in the last month. And there were still more people working than in any other February...
Back in the twenties, PBK ran both a special advising service and a tutoring school for students in academic embarrassment, Gootenberg explained. The tutoring service will not be revived, however, he said, because the Bureau of Study Counsel now performs that job adequately...